Why Do This Course?
If you are ill or disabled your benefit situation is likely to be fairly complicated, involving a combination of different payments and allowances. Your carer may have their own separate combination, but what the carer claims can impact on your benefits.
The continuing introduction of Universal Credit makes your situation even more convoluted.
This course makes sense of all of this.
By doing the course you will:
- Understand the benefits for care and mobility needs and their different criteria and processes
- Understand the Work Capability Assessment and what the DWP means by Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work Related Activity
- Understand the Severe Disability Premium and the SDP Gateway rule
- Learn about migration to Universal Credit
- See the combinations of benefits for people with disabilities and their carers
- Improve your confidence and effectiveness at supporting service users in dealing with their benefits
- Understand how the benefits system responds to children who have disabilities
- Be able to use your Benefit Notes to find relevant information
- Feel confident to call me if you get stuck
Content
- Benefits for care and mobility needs: DLA, PIP and Attendance Allowance
- The Work Capability Assessment
- ESA – both old-style and new-style
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Carer’s Allowance
- The Severe Disability Premium and the SDP Gateway rule
- Universal Credit and illness or disability
- Disabled child elements of Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit
- Illness, disability and the bedroom tax.
- Disability Reductions and Severe Mental Impairment in Council Tax