CPAG courses and seminars in London
January 2010 – March 2011

Introductory courses

• An introduction to welfare rights
• Benefits for ill or disabled people
• Benefits for non-benefits advisers

Update courses for experienced advisers

• Social security and tax credits law update

Lawyers' courses

• Welfare benefits update Half-day course
• Separation, maintenance and settlement Half-day course

Life events

• Birth: benefits, tax credits and other financial help New
• Benefit support on bereavement

Tax credits

• Child tax credit and working tax credit
• Calculating tax credit
• Tax credits problems New

Pension credit

• Pension credit: an introduction
• Pension credit Seminar

The social fund

• Taking on the discretionary social fund

People with disabilities and their carers

• AA/DLA – revisions, supersessions and appeals
• Claiming DLA for children
• DLA: case law and tactics Seminar
• Community care and social security
• Benefits for carers of sick and disabled people
• Mental health: benefit for ill or disabled people

Unable to work on grounds of sickness of disability

• Employment and support allowance
• The work capability assessment Seminar
• Incapacity for work/limited capability for work appeals: caselaw and tactics Seminar

'Welfare to work'

• The New Deal and 'welfare to work' for claimants
• Moving into work – lone parents
• Moving into work – disabled people

Young people

• Looked-after children, their carers and their families
• Benefits for young people

Students

• Students and benefits – eligibility and definitions
• Students and benefits – treatment of student income
• Students and benefits: update for experienced advisers
• Students and debt
• Students and debt – tactics for experienced advisers

People from abroad

• Immigration law and social security
• Rights of EU/EAA nationals
• Right to reside and habitual residence

Benefit administration

• Claims, backdating and challenging decisions
• Overpayments and recovery of benefit

Challenging decisions and preparing for appeals

• Using legislation and case law
• Challenging tribunal decisions
• Representing at First-tier Tribunals
• Tribunal rules
• Judicial review: social security and tax credits
• Compensation for maladministration Seminar
• Human rights and social security – possible challenges

Fraud

• Fraud and social security

Prisoners

• Prisoners and benefits new

Housing

• Housing benefit and rent arrears
• The local housing allowance and rent restrictions half-day course
• Help with mortgage and other payments revised
• Housing benefit – the problem areas

Money advice

• Child support: liability and enforcement new
• Dealing with debt
• Bankruptcy and other insolvency procedures – what do they mean? new
• Outline of bankruptcy procedure and responding to proceedings Half-day course

Campaigning skills

• Benefit take-up campaigns

Training skills

• Training for welfare rights trainers