Benefits: Housing benefit
This e-learning looks at Housing benefit, which can help tenants on low incomes to pay their rent.
ASA Learning Category: Advice
The Advice category contains learning within the following advice areas which you can browse:
Consumer (3); Debt and Money Management (31); Employment (11); Family (10); Health (1); Housing (74); Immigration (8); Law and Courts (4); Welfare Benefits (77).
Benefits: Income maximisation
This learning is about income maximisation and will help you advise clients on low incomes about the possibilities of maximising their income.
Benefits: National Insurance contributions – who pays what?
This e-learning will give you an overview of the National Insurance Scheme and the different classes of contributions together with some case study examples.
Benefits: Personal independence payment (PIP)
This e-learning will take you through the basic structure of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and how to make a claim for it.
Benefits: Personal independence payment (PIP) – completing the form
In this e-learning we’re going to follow an example client, Sofia, through her claim for personal independence payment (PIP).
Benefits: Sanctions
This e-learning explains why payment of Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment Support Allowance, Universal Credit or Income Support may stop or be reduced if the claimant fails to do something they are required to do.
Benefits: Tax credits
This e-learning module assumes that Universal Credit has not yet begun to replace tax credits in your area. It explains about the tax credit administration process and outlines what change of circumstances affect entitlement.
Benefits: Tax credits change of circumstances
Tax Credits, as well as Income Support, Housing Benefit and income related JSA/ESA, will eventually be replaced by Universal Credit. Once Universal Credit starts all of these benefits will be called ‘legacy benefits’.
Benefits: Tax credits overpayment
This e-learning is aimed at giving you a better understanding of Tax Credits overpayments.
Benefits: When to offer a benefits check
This e -learning module enables you to decide when a check is not appropriate and to recognise likely situations.