Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Handbook 2010/11

The Handbook gives you comprehensive coverage of all welfare benefits and tax credits, updated annually. This edition includes new and updated information on about employment and support allowance (ESA), lone parents’ income support entitlement, housing costs, the right to reside test, and benefit and tax credit overpayments.

There is full coverage of: income support; JSA; housing benefit; the social fund; ESA and the work capability assessment; pensions and pension credit; benefits for maternity, paternity, adoption, children, disability, retirement, etc, as well as child tax credit and working tax credit.. Also: administration; contributions and earnings; rules for students and people from abroad; backdating; overpayments; fraud; challenging decisions.

Accessible and authoritative, the Handbook is fully indexed and cross-referenced to law, regulations and official guidance, and also to court and commissioners' decisions. Information is fully cross-referenced between the social security and tax systems..

Bimonthly updates to the Handbook are published in the Welfare Rights Bulletin.

April 2010 978 1 906076 39 9 £39.00
(£9.00 post free for individual benefit claimants – direct from CPAG)
CPAG Comprehensive and Rights members each receive one copy automatically before publication.

'The advisers’ bible… The most comprehensive and user-friendly publication in the field of welfare benefits… An absolute must for welfare rights workers as well as those giving general advice'
THE ADVISER (CITIZENS ADVICE)

‘So easy to follow...a godsend. Many of us would be lost without (it)’ A CLAIMANT

‘Excellent’ THE MIRROR

‘The most complete guides to social security benefits’ SUNDAY TIMES

The best value in publishing ... The reference manual of choice for professional advisers. Even tribunal chairmen can be seen referring to it in preference to the more technical manuals they are supplied with … All legal aid firms must have this book’ SOLICITORS JOURNAL

“Simply the best and most vital guide … that you can buy” COMMUNITY CARE

“Written with unsurpassed clarity…essential” – FAMILY LAW

“The one thing that can be relied on in this ever changing world of welfare is CPAG’s indispensable handbook… the adviser’s bible” – THE ADVISER (Citizens Advice)

Downloads

Download a sample chapter and benefit and tax credit rates for 2010/11 [134 kb pdf file]

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