Mental Health and Welfare Benefits

This course will provide an overview of how to assist people with mental health issues with benefit claims, in particular with Limited Capability for Work (Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment).The course covers:

· The PIP and LCW tests

· The law around Personal Independence Payment and Limited Capability for Work, such as MH v SSWP 2016 UKUT 531 AAC

· The DWP, the Public Sector Equality Duty and reasonable adjustments

· The DWP and safeguarding vulnerable claimants

· Rules around work and sickness benefits, including ‘permitted work’

· Mental health, benefit sanctions and how to challenge them