Group training (5-18 staff): Commercial rate £955; Standard / Concessionary £890 + plus trainer’s expenses + VAT
Please note: this is a change of date - this course was originally advertised in our June-Dec 2018 leaflet as being on 14 November.
Course contains
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- Student eligibility:
- Tax credits
- Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Housing Benefit
- Health/disability benefits and Carer’s Allowance
- Universal Credit
- How student income affects legacy benefits
- Understanding UC rollout – full service and live service areas
- What changes can lead to a claim for UC?
- The UC assessment period
- Elements of UC
- Calculating student income for UC
- How other forms of income affect UC
- UC calculation examples
- UC work requirements – how students are affected
- The summer vacation/end of course/leaving a course
Learning outcomes
After attending this course, you will:
- Know who counts as a student when claiming benefits in both Further Education and Higher Education;
- Have gained an understanding of the different rules for students claiming a range of benefits including Income Support, Housing Benefit, health/disability benefits and Universal Credit.
- Understand how UC is calculated for students including the effect of different types of student income;
- Understand which students have to look for work whilst claiming Universal Credit and completing a course of education;
- Understand how UC awards for students are affected during the summer holidays and at the end of the course;
- Be able to advise students on their eligibility for UC and how much UC they are likely to get;
- Have access to the BTC advice service for up to 12 months after the course.
Suitable for
This course is relevant to anyone who works with students of working age. Participants should have a working knowledge of the wider benefits system.
Meet the trainer
Will Hadwen: Previously a welfare benefits specialist for Citizens Advice, Will now works for Working Families giving employment and benefits advice to parents, and for Child Poverty Action Group Scotland as a second tier adviser.
Will also contributes to Child Poverty Action Group's Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook, and is a former author of their Child Support Handbook. He has trained for Gingerbread, the single parents' charity, as well as Advice UK and CPAG. He is a regular contributor on benefits issues to BBC Radio 4's Moneybox Live and has appeared on Sky News discussing welfare reform.
