universal credit

This course will take place online. Welfare Reform poses a number of issues, in particular for those living in temporary accommodation who are trying to move into the private rented sector. This course will give participants an understanding of issues such as completing an application for Universal Credit, rent in advance, sources of finance during the first assessment period, and accessing discretionary payments to help with this wait.

This fully interactive, multimedia course will train advisers in the key skills required to support clients digitally in preparing for, making and maintaining a Universal Credit account.

Universal Credit has fundamentally changed the legacy means-tested benefits systems as we know it. This intensive, in-depth one day course will identify which benefits Universal Credit replaces and which remain outside Universal Credit.

With the first major piece of legislation to improve the private rented sector due to begin its passage through the NI Assembly this Autumn, Housing Rights is hosting a policy seminar to look in closer detail at the provisions in the Bill which relate to security of tenure.