Pension-age claimants – income maximisation

Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to. This course provides an introduction to pension credit and aims to help you with effective benefit checks to maximise income.  

The course covers:

• State pension
• Who is eligible for pension credit
• How to work out guarantee credit entitlement
• Claiming pension credit and how it interacts with ‘passported’ benefits
• How income and pension pots affect pension credit
• How universal credit affects benefits for older people
• How disability benefits are affected as state pension age rises and Scottish benefits become available, including pension age disability benefit 
• Income maximisation tactics and benefit checks for older people

This course is aimed at advisers with a working knowledge of the benefits system.

Please note: this is a face-to-face course only.