Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2024-25 26th ed

Written by a team of over 20 experts, the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook is the must-have guide to the social security system. This handbook provides all the information you need to help you maximise income for your clients and to support with completing benefits checks, making claims and what to do when things go wrong.

Who’s this book for?

It is essential for welfare rights advisers, lawyers, local authority and housing association staff, social workers, union officials and benefit claimants.

What’s new?

Fully updated for 2024/25, this edition includes:

• managed migration
• new information on universal credit work-related requirements for parents and part-time workers
• new caselaw relating to personal independence payment descriptors
• comprehensive information about entitlement to all benefits including statutory payments such as sick pay and paternity leave
• fully updated benefit and tax credit rates

For over 50 years, the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook has been the unrivalled resource for benefits advisers. Fully indexed, for ease of use, and cross-referenced to law, regulations, and official guidance, and to court and tribunal decisions.