Benefits for carers

Half day

Background

Benefits advice is crucial for carers when considering matters such as the effect on the disabled person’s benefits, taking employment or claiming when over pension age.

Aims

To explore the range of benefits available to carers.

To enable participants to advise carers on how their benefits are affected in different circumstances.

Contents

• Who can claim carer’s allowance
• How carer’s allowance links to both the carer’s and disabled person’s benefits
• Entitlements for those over pension age
• Council tax discounts on council tax bills
• Home responsibilities protection
• Challenging decisions

Suitable for

Social & health care staff, support workers, benefits advisers, and anyone who works with disabled people and carers.

Ideally people need a basic knowledge of the benefits system or have completed the introduction to benefits course.

What participants said last year

“Excellent course, interactive, plenty of opportunity for discussions and questions”

“Feel more equipped to give out info to carers”

“Well presented and easy to understand”

This page was last updated on 4 October 2009