Benefits for older people

Course outline

For advisers supporting people above state pension age, this course will help you to identify the range of benefits available and help clients to maximise entitlement. In particular, the course will cover retirement pensions and pension credit, but also look at housing benefit, council tax benefit, disability and carer benefits and help from the social fund.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

identify which benefits are available and the relationship between them
explain the main rules of entitlement to state retirement pension
assess entitlement to pension credit
identify potential entitlement to disability and carer benefits

Course accreditation

Level	CPD	NOS
Introductory	5 Hours	LA10, LA49, LA50

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