"Excellent" Mike Tonkin, New Law Solicitors
"Great to feed off trainer's and others benefits experience" Tracey Jones, Age Concern Torfaen
"Very useful" Pam Bugg, Fry Housing Trust
Includes free access to our Members' area and unique UC software designed to help you learn the new system
Get ready for Universal Credit. In launching the Welfare Reform Act 2012, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, promised the biggest shake up of the Welfare Benefits system for 60 years. Universal Credit will start to replace Housing Benefit, Tax Credits, Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance(income related), Job Seekers Allowance(income based) for working age clients from April 2013. Some of the aims are to incentivise work and simplify the administration of Welfare Benefits.
This overview course will include details on-
- The reasons for change
- The basics of Universal Credit in key card format
- Cost implications
- Timetable for changes to the system
- the full/ digital service
- Which clients are likely to be affected
- Exceptions
- loss of the SDP gateway
- changes to Universal Credit over the last 2 years, including the Autumn budget 2017 and 2018, 2020 changes
- Calculating Universal Credit
- Some of the detail, for example assessment periods, APA’s and claiming online
- Where we are headed- at a glance guide to the Benefits System
- A chance to discuss with other participants how you might respond both as an organisation and with your clients in mind
duration— 1 day 10am- 4pm
Course Level- Update (for delegates with or without prior knowledge of the subject)
Course accreditation- the Solicitors Regulation Authority has authorised us to award 5.25 hours Continuing Professional Development(CPD) points for solicitors attending this course. Our allocated CPD reference is EJV/SWTL.
Timetable for implementation-
There are currently over 5.7 million people(Oct 2020) on Universal Credit. Claims have more than doubled in 2020.
All areas of the UK now take applications for new claims upon a change of circumstance, that may lead to a new claim being needed. This is called the full(digital) service.
2022-2024 will see the gradual migration of any remaining claims for the 6 legacy benefit Universal Credit replaces.
Eventually there will be around 7-8+ million claimants of Universal Credit.