An Introduction to Welfare Benefits
This is available as a one or two day course & provides participants with an introduction to welfare benefits including:
- A brief introduction to the benefits system & how it works
- Understanding the difference between means-tested & non-means tested benefits.
- Identifying entitlement to Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Tax Credits, The Social Fund, benefits for disabled people & those with a limited capacity for work.
The two day course also includes
- Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit
- Understanding underlying entitlements & ‘passporting’ to other benefits (benefits which some people are automatically entitled to because of their entitlement to a different benefit)
- How to challenge decisions
Contact Koha for more information or to discuss your welfare Benefits training needs
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