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Introduction to Welfare Benefits

Training Course Shelter

About the CPD course

Understand how the benefits system is structured and the differences between contributory; non-contributory and means tested benefits; Know who can claim each of the benefits which make up the system; Have an awareness of common issues affecting people when claiming health and disability benefits; Understand how ongoing reforms are affecting the wider system; Know how packages of entitlements can be claimed together; Be able to complete basic benefit checks to ensure people are claiming their likely entitlements; Be able to advise people on how to make claims and how to challenge decisions.

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Shelter

Shelter

Shelter tackles the root causes of the housing crisis by challenging the people in power to make our vision of a home for everyone a reality. We lobby the government and local authorities for new laws and policies, and more investment, to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people.

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