Training
Housing benefit - an introduction
Dates: 24/10/2012
'This has been the best and most informed course on benefits I have attended'
Training Participant,
Irish Centre Housing
This course covers:
- Who can and cannot claim Housing Benefit
- All the practicalities – claims and payments
- What Housing Benefit can pay for – service charges and Local Housing Allowance
- Calculating Housing Benefit
- Discretionary Housing Payments
- Challenging decisions
- The future: - the end of Housing Benefit ... and the start of Universal Credit ...
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Work out what date Housing Benefit should be paid from
- Identify whether Housing Benefit payments will be reduced due to service charges, non-dependant deductions and Local Housing Allowances
- Carry out Housing Benefit calculations for working and non-working claimants
- Make an application for a Discretionary Housing Payment
- Explain the time limits for challenging Housing Benefit decisions
- Explain the current and forthcoming changes to Housing Benefit
Online booking: Book this course online
Course tutors include: Amy Swinnerton | Andrew Poole | Daphne Hall | Jo Silcox | Martin Williams | Michael Chambers
SRA CPD credits: 5
Course level: Introductory
