Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2004/2005

by Caroline George (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $8.73

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.48

  The Handbook provides the most comprehensive coverage available of all means-tested and non-means-tested benefits. It now also covers the new tax credits. In April 2003 the welfare benefits system will undergo its biggest shake-up for decades as many benefits are replaced by the new Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit. The new credits cover a wider range of people than ever before, and in the first year of the new system claimants' need for advice and help will be at its greatest. The Welfare Benefits Handbook has therefore been revised to include full information on the new tax credits, and renamed as the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook. The tax credits information will be in its own section of the Handbook separated by a card divider. The new Handbook will be approx 500 pages longer than the previous edition. To retain the convenient one-volume format, it will be printed on thinner (but still high quality) paper. The Handbook will continue to provide the most comprehensive coverage available of all means-tested and non-means-tested benefits, including: income support, jobseeker's allowance, disability and incapacity benefits, housing benefit, the social fund, pensions, council tax benefit, and benefits and payments for maternity, widowhood, redundancy etc. It covers England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. Users include welfare rights advisers, lawyers, social workers, housing staff, health visitors, union officials and claimants. The Welfare Benefits Handbook is essential reading on social work courses, and is supplied to all Citizens Advice Bureaux. Purchase of annually updated editions is a requirement for any law firm wishing to do legal aid work under the Community Legal Service scheme. CPAG's benefits coverage is acknowledged as definitive in range, depth and accuracy. It is also the only handbook published at the same time as annual rates and regulations come into force in April each year - giving readers a full twelve months of usage.