Benefits for carers
9.30am to 1.00pm
Dates
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Thursday 12 February 2009
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 30 July 2008
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