Original Butterworths isbn - 0406996601
Welfare Law guides the reader through the maze of welfare benefits and allowances, ensuring that all factors are taken into account when making assessments and formulating advice. In looseleaf format, it keeps subscribers up to date with the regular changes in benefit entitlement, classification and calculation.
The work enables the reader to identify exactly which welfare benefits are due to a client in a particular situation. Additional information provides explanation of how entitlement may be backdated and how to appeal against a decision and will help the subscriber satisfy the requirements of the Legal Services Commission under the franchising system.
The work includes a description of each benefit with clear explanation of how to calculate its value, worked examples illustrating complicated and typical situations and accompanying flowcharts and checklists. Thorough cross-referencing between benefits highlights how receipt of one benefit may affect entitlement to another. It also supplies practical advice on day-to-day procedure.
It is kept up to date with special budget bulletins.Two looseleaf volumes, subscribers receive their first year's updating issues as par