Butterworth's Welfare Law

This practical and popular looseleaf service 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. It will keep you fully up-to-date with the regular changes in benefit entitlement, classification and calculation, and enable you 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. "Tottel's Welfare Law" will also help the subscriber satisfy the requirements of the Legal Services Commission under the franchising system. A description of each benefit is outlined, with a clear explanation of how to calculate its value, together with numerous worked examples illustrating complicated and typical situations and accompanying flowcharts and checklists. It is kept up-to-date with special budget bulletins.