Part 1: Introduction

This book is free online thanks to a partnership with the NUS.

This popular guide to student finance and benefit entitlement in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been fully updated for the 20/21 academic year, and covers a range of grants and loans available in all three countries - for full-time and part time students, young people in further education, post graduates and those studying vocational courses.

The Welfare Rights Bulletin is CPAG's journal of welfare benefits and tax credits law and practice. It is also an updating service for our Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

In this issue:

- The SDP gateway: closure and consequences
- Delayed assessments for disability benefits
- Coronavirus: isolated from payments?
- Advising EEA nationals now

This book is free online thanks to a partnership with the Community Justice Fund.

Despite struggling to make ends meet, many families do not claim all the financial support to which they are entitled.

This new edition of Financial Help for Families: what you need to know is for you if you work with families and want to help maximise their income or deal with a benefit problem. It covers all the main social security benefits, as well as other important financial support for children, such as child maintenance and help with childcare and school costs.

You don’t have to be a benefits expert – the book is clear and understandable for everyone. It contains plenty of examples to help explain the benefit rules, tactics on what to do if the amount of benefit has been reduced or if payments are delayed and a useful glossary of terms.

The Welfare Rights Bulletin is CPAG's journal of welfare benefits and tax credits law and practice. It is also an updating service for our Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

In this issue:

- Ending of free movement: rights to reside and benefits
- UC and ‘double payment’ of wages: new rules
- Scottish child payment
- Universal credit and disabled students – no way in?

The journal aims to stimulate debate about the nature, causes and consequences of child poverty in the UK, and potential solutions.

​Inside this issue:​

- Don't zap the zip: keep travel free for young Londoners
- ​Universal infant free school meals​
- ​Safeguarding adults - a safer and more secure future?​
- ​Universal credit and COVID-19​

The Welfare Rights Bulletin is CPAG's journal of welfare benefits and tax credits law and practice. It is also an updating service for our Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

In this issue:

- UC and earned income: escaping the benefit cap
- Coronavirus and benefits: a round-up of recent changes
- ESA – pending appeal, without mandatory reconsideration?
- Expediting UC appeals

The Children’s Handbook Scotland provides a complete guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living away from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children looked after by the local authority, and children at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

It covers entitlement when children are living away from home, how local authority payments affect carers’ benefits and tax credits, and how to challenge decisions. Fully referenced to legislation and caselaw, and with easy-to-use checklists and examples, this latest edition remains an essential guide for anyone working with families and children in Scotland.

The companion to our popular Student Support and Benefits Handbook, this annual title is the key guide to the benefits and tax credits for students in Scotland.

It includes a quick guide to the grants and loans available for further and higher education in Scotland, and clear, easy-to-use information on students’ benefit entitlement and how this is affected by their student income. Also included is information on how benefits are affected in vacations and if a student takes time out from their course.

Fully updated for the 2020/21 academic year, the book is an invaluable resource for anyone who advises students in Scotland. It is fully cross-referenced to the law and includes easy-to-use checklists and examples.

The Welfare Rights Bulletin is CPAG's journal of welfare benefits and tax credits law and practice. It is also an updating service for our Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

In this issue:
- UC and ‘double payment’ of wages: what now?
- Backdating child tax credit for refugees
- Recovery of UC advance payments
- UC, SEISS payments and automatic reclaims

The journal aims to stimulate debate about the nature, causes and consequences of child poverty in the UK, and potential solutions.

In this issue:

- 2020 Vision: ending child poverty for good
- Children being home-schooled during lockdown
- Who pays for the recovery after COVID-19?
- Secure Futures: after the pandemic