Training
Pension credit and other benefits for older people
Online booking is available here
Who this course is for -
Staff advising older people on eligibility for benefits, particularly pension credit.
NB - If you have very little knowledge of the benefit system we recommend that you attend our Welfare benefits overview course first
What this course is about -
Do you work with or advise older people? Are you confident about advising them on their eligibility to claim pension credit? Do you understand the changes its introduction has brought to older people's entitlement to housing benefit and how it interacts with other benefits people might be receiving such as carer's allowance?
This course will enable you to successfully identify who is eligible to claim pension credit, advise on how to claim and correctly carry out pension credit calculations – both the guarantee and the savings credit - and will enable you to maximise your clients' incomes and reduce the huge amount in benefits under-claimed by older people each year.
Level: Introductory
