Advice NI is a membership organisation that exists to provide leadership, representation and support for independent advice organisations to facilitate the delivery of high quality, sustainable advice services. Advice NI exists to provide its members with the capacity and tools to ensure effective advice services delivery. This includes: advice and information management systems, funding and planning, quality assurance support, NVQ
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Advice NI
Changes to rules relating to the recovery of benefit overpayments mean that recovery will now be sought in the vast majority of cases. This has shifted the spotlight to the Department’s discretionary power to waive recovery. A recent legal challenge in Great Britain has resulted in important changes to the Department for Work & Pensions’ Benefit Overpayment Recovery Guide, which appears to open up access to discretionary waivers.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This 90-minute course has been designed to inform and update learners on the redundancy process. It will cover the following:
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This overview level session will equip advisers with a more detailed knowledge and appreciation of key issues faced by survivors as they navigate social security, housing, and employment issues either for the first time or indeed help advisers understand how changes of circumstance/relationship have an impact on these areas.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This 90-minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on Universal Credit’s treatment of The Self-Employed including;
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
With the current prevalence of employability schemes aimed at individuals who have been economically inactive, it is vital that clients understand the risks and rewards that entering work may present to their entitlement.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This practical and informative session will provide detailed information on the support available within the benefit system for those who have experienced bereavement and that are responsible for funeral arrangements including;
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This half day course provides a detailed overview of all National Insurance Contribution rules and how these translate to State Pension Entitlement in both the new and outgoing Pension Schemes.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This 90 minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on the different transitional protection elements available to legacy claimants moving over to Universal Credit.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This 90-minute nutshell provides learning for advisers to ensure that inappropriate conditionality is not imposed and to help with challenging sanction decisions when something goes wrong.
Newtownbreda
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Online / Virtual
Training/Advice
Advice NI
This course will provide a more in-depth and advanced analysis into Universal Credit and Transitional Protection.
Newtownbreda
