Benefits and moving into work
Full day
Background
At the heart of welfare reform is the government’s aim to increase the number of disabled and lone parent claimants moving into paid employment. This course looks at the range of incentives on offer and how to assess whether someone will be better off.
Aims
To increase your knowledge of how benefits are affected by moving into different types of work.
To provide practical skills for identifying how someone would be better off in work.
Contents
- Voluntary work
- Permitted work
- Working tax credit and full-time work
- Linking rules if work ends
- Pathways to work
- Employment and support allowance and future changes
Suitable for
This course is ideally for employment support workers, personal advisers, and those working in an advisory and/or supportive capacity with disabled people or lone parents. You will need a basic working knowledge of income support, incapacity benefit and housing benefit or you should have attended the introduction to benefits course.
What participants said last year
"Nicely balanced content well spread out over the day”
“Training was very interesting- crosses over into elements of our work”
“PowerPoint clear and concise and very helpful booklet to take away"
This page was last updated on 4 October 2009
