Universal credit and other benefits courses

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. Learn about the situations in which universal credit can be backdated and how and when a request for backdating can be made. 

This is an advanced level course for advisers with existing benefit knowledge.

You'll find out what the law says about when backdating is possible, including the specific grounds for backdating. Details of recent cases are included to show how the law is developing in this area. 

The course is full of examples and interactive elements to help you engage with the content and practice what you've learned.

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. It's about how backdating rules work in managed migration cases. 

This is an advanced level course for people with existing benefit knowledge. 

The course follows on from our other eLearning course UC backdating. It might be a good idea to do that course first.

Most of the general rules about claiming universal credit apply to claimants who are subject to managed migration. This includes the usual rule about backdating. There is one situation where a different rule applies though and we'll learn about this in the course.

The course also looks at whether backdating under the usual rules can help you get transitional protection if you do not claim universal credit until after the final deadline for managed migration.

The course is full of examples and interactive elements to help you engage with the content and practice what you've learned.

It should take about 20 minutes to complete.

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. It's about moving home and the universal credit housing costs element. 

Explore the types of problems that moving home can create, such as when you have two liabilities to pay rent for an old home and a new home at the same time. Look at the limited situations where you can get the housing costs element fo rmore than one home at the same time. 

This is an advanced level course for advisers with existing benefit knowledge. 

This course will take about 15 minutes to complete.

These courses are relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. Discover the rules about who can get the transitional severe disability premium (SDP) element in their universal credit (UC), and help ensure clients get this extra money whenever possible.

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. Learn what happens to couples’ benefits when one of them is working-age and the other is pension-age.

This is an advanced level course for advisers with existing benefit knowledge.

You'll learn which mixed-age couples have to claim universal credit and which mixed-age couples can get pension-age benefits or legacy benefits. For couples that have to claim universal credit, you'll explore how to maximise their income by thinking about the timing of their claim.

The course is full of examples and interactive elements to help you engage with the content and practice what you've learned.

This course is relevant in Scotland only. Find out about the impact of Scottish student loans and grants on universal credit. 

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. Get to grips with how universal credit works, who can get it and what people are expected to do in return.

Find out about the basic rules for universal credit and which legacy benefits it is replacing. Look at the different elements that make up an award, as well as how income affects the amount of universal credit that you get. Explore the process for claiming universal credit and learn about the claimant committment and work-related requirements.

The course is full of examples and interactive elements to help you engage with the content and practice what you've learned. 

This course will take about 60 minutes to complete.

This course is for anyone who works with people living in Hertfordshire. Get to grips with universal credit and find out how it works, who can get it and what people are expected to do in return.

Find out about the basic rules for universal credit and which legacy benefits it is replacing. Look at the different elements that make up an award, as well as how income affects the amount of universal credit that you get. Explore the process for claiming universal credit and learn about the claimant committment and work-related requirements.

The course is full of examples and interactive elements to help you engage with the content and practice what you've learned. 

This course will take about 60 minutes to complete.

This course is relevant in England, Wales and Scotland. Learn about how to make your own way or support other people through the appeals process.