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Understanding state benefits and protection - part two

  • To learn about the state benefits currently available.
  • To comprehend the role of protection within the social and state benefits system and the impact on clients.
  • To understand the opportunities and pitfalls for the protection industry in filling the financial gaps left by the benefits system.
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The key thing to bear in mind with regards to Universal Credit is, in addition to being more extensively means-tested than the benefits it replaces, like other means-tested benefits the means testing is real-time - the entitlement to benefit changing in line with changes to household circumstances.

Advisers would be well advised to review the wording of their recommendations and ensure that they mention that protection claim benefits paid at a future point may impact eligibility for means-tested welfare benefits. Limits and conditions applying can and do change.

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Kevin Carr is chief executive of the Protection Review

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Approx.30min

Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. Statutory sick pay is payable to anyone in full-time employment earning at least £130 a week. True or false?

  2. According to a report by Carers UK in June, around four in 10 individuals on moving to PIP are being assessed as no longer eligible for what?

  3. How much does ill health among working people cost the UK economy every year?

  4. Mr Carr says changes to what type of allowance are something the protection industry should be considering?

  5. The new benefit cap could have a significant impact on who, according to Mr Carr?

  6. According to Mr Carr, the key thing to bear in mind about Universal Credit is what?

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  • To learn about the state benefits currently available.
  • To comprehend the role of protection within the social and state benefits system and the impact on clients.
  • To understand the opportunities and pitfalls for the protection industry in filling the financial gaps left by the benefits system.

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