Why Do This Course?
Before Universal Credit, full-time workers could claim a combination of Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Housing Benefit. Many people, who claimed before UC was introduced, still get these.
Since UC arrived, low paid workers generally claim this instead.
For some people UC offer a big improvement, for others there are significant losses.
By doing the course you will:
- Gain a strong understanding of how the tax credits and Housing Benefit support low paid workers
- Get a firm grip on the many problems that come from this pre-UC credit system
- Learn about how UC offers a better transition process from non-working, to working – unless you are ill or disabled.
- See how wages are treated in UC
- Get a strong sense of when it might be best to migrate from the old system to UC
- Understand some of the different problems caused for workers by UC
- See the particular problems faced by workers who have disabilities in moving into full-time work
Content
- Tax and National Insurance – Working out the take-home from the gross
- Non-means-tested benefits that workers might claim: PIP, Child Benefit, statutory-pay benefits
- The tax credits and HB – a rough guide to the way these are worked out and the problems that they cause
- Childcare costs for workers
- Universal Credit – an overview of the way it’s worked out
- Universal Credit – work allowances and earnings deductions
- Universal Credit – avoiding the pitfalls