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Universal Credit

What You Need to Know

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: CPAG, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Child Poverty Action Group
Published: 25th Nov 2015
Dimensions: w 143mm h 211mm d 7mm
Weight: 195g
ISBN-10: 1910715050
ISBN-13: 9781910715055
Barcode No: 9781910715055
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Feb 2nd 2016, 12:13
ANOTHER HIGHLY USEFUL SHORT GUIDE TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT FROM THE CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP (CPAG)
Awesome - 10 out of 10
ANOTHER HIGHLY USEFUL SHORT GUIDE TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT FROM THE CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP (CPAG)

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

A large number of people from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) have collaborated to produce this fine short statement on where we are currently with the complexities of “Universal Credit”. The book has been updated for the excellent third edition which reaches a very wide audience and is a guide readily available in a large number of places including CABs and public libraries.

There are nine chapters in about 150 pages with some excellent worked examples which should assist in dealing with the main questions claimants raise with advisers, MPs and councillors. In our view, this third edition remains an ideal guide for advisers and is completely up to date for 2016 at a time of substantial change for benefits claimants.

And it is an essential guide which tells you what universal credit means for you in simple English. It explains in straightforward terms how the Universal Credit system works and how it affects people in various situations (lone parents, carers etc). This fully revised third edition has also been updated in line with the new legal regulations introduced by the government.

This highly useful book in only a few pages is also just right for you if you're currently claiming benefits yourself, or if you think you may need to do so at some date in future. Use it to find out what you need to know about universal credit and how it's likely to affect you because CPAG aim to explain the system as simply as possible and they succeed with their aim brilliantly here.

One of the most important points about all the guides which CPAG publish is that you, as the reader seeking such information, do not need to be an expert on the social security system or any of the other welfare law areas which they cover. That is the beauty of the titles which CPAG give us and it does make our lives some much easier with the service they offer the vulnerable in all aspects of welfare law,

Undoubtedly, this book makes the law clear and understandable for everyone. It covers a range of questions including: can you claim universal credit; how much universal credit will you get; when will your benefit be sanctioned; when can you be fined; what will you be expected to do to receive benefit; what happens if you're overpaid or your circumstances change,,, and much, much more

We have actually said it before but it is worth repeating here that the beauty of this guide and all the CPAG titles they print rests with the importance and urgency of the subject matter to individual claimants and those in the most vulnerable parts of our society. Thank you, CPAG, for the continuing service you give some of the most disadvantaged people in our society today.