CPAG Welfare Benefits courses and seminars in London
January 2008 – March 2009

Introductory courses
Introduction to welfare rights
Benefits for non-benefits advisers  
Incapacity and disability benefits
Interviewing skills

Update courses for experienced advisers
Social security and tax credits law update

Life events
Birth: employment rights and benefit when a child is born

Benefit support on bereavment

Tax credits
Tax credits: the basics
Child tax credit and working tax credit
Calculating tax credits
Tax credits: overpayments
Tax credits: compliance and appeals

Pension credit
An introduction to pension credit
Pension credit
Seminar

Benefit administration
Claims, backdating and challenging decisions
Overpayments and recovery of benefit

Advising people with disabilities and their carers
AA/DLA – revisions, supersessions and appeals

Claiming DLA for children

Disability living allowance: case law and tactics
Seminar
Community care and social security
Benefits for carers of sick and disabled people
Mental health, the sickness route to benefit and claiming DLA

Incapacity for work and welfare reform
The ‘revised PCA’ test for employment and support allowance New half-day course
Employment and support allowance
Industrial injury benefits
Incapacity for work appeals: case law and tactics Seminar

New Deal
The New Deal and 'welfare to work' for claimants


Advising young people
Benefits and financial support; looked-after children and their families
Benefits for young people

Students
Students and benefits – eligibility and definitions
Students and benefits – treatment of student income
Students and benefits: udpate for experienced advisers
Students and debt
New course

Advising people from abroad
Immigration law and social security
EC law and social security
Right to reside and habitual residence

Fraud
Fraud and social security

Housing
Council tax: protecting vulnerable taxpayers
Local Housing Allowance New half-day course
Housing costs explained
New course
Housing benefit – the problem areas
Housing benefit appeal tribunals

Money advice
Dealing with debt
Voluntary bankruptcy – what it means for clients
Half-day course
Outline of bankruptcy procedure and responding to proceedings Half-day course

The social fund
Taking on the discretionary social fund

Campaigning skills
Benefit take-up campaigns

Training skills
Training for welfare rights trainers
Presentation skills

Challenging decisions and preparing for appeals
Finding your way around the law
Taking cases to the commissioners
Representing at appeal tribunals
Role of the appeals representative Half-day course
Human rights and social security: possible challenges
Judicial review: social security and tax credits
Compensation for maladministration Seminar

The new tribunal rules NEW half-day course

Lawyers' courses
Welfare benefits update Half-day course
Separation, maintenance and settlement
Half-day course

 


For details of training in Scotland, see CPAG training in Scotland pages.


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