This course will provide advisers with a good outline of how this new means-tested benefit will be introduced, who will be entitled, the claim process, claimant conditionality and how Universal Credit will be calculated.

Aims

This course will provide advisers with a good outline of how this new means-tested benefit will be introduced, who will be entitled, the claim process, claimant conditionality and how Universal Credit will be calculated.

Objectives

By the end of the course delegates will have covered the following areas:

• What benefits are being replaced by Universal Credit and when

• What the basic rules of entitlement will be

• An outline of what payments will make up Universal Credit

• What conditionality claimants will be expected to comply to

• Who is likely to be better-off and who is could be worse-off

• What are the potential problem areas with the new benefit