Training Courses
Probably the best benefits calculator in the world. Quick Benefits Calculator is a powerful tool, but it takes some getting used to.
This practical course has excellent feedback. It provides a thorough grounding in how to handle and ultimately learn to love QBC.
Advice Tools
The aim of this website is to give both benefits advisers and members of the public the tools they need to navigate Universal Credit and the broader benefits system, understand rules that are not generally well understood and often not properly explained on other advice and information websites.
Understanding how the Local Housing Allowance works can be tricky. The government website doesn’t make it easy to correctly work out the LHA rate for a Universal Credit claim.
This tool is the only place you’ll find both weekly rates and their monthly UC equivalents in an easy search.
It also gives guidance on the rules to work out which rates applies. You’re definitely going to want to bookmark this page.
You can also order a free LHA rates poster for your local area here.
2024-25
Download our 2024/25 benefit rates poster here
2023-24
Download our 2023/24 benefit rates poster here
2022-23
The benefits matrix is a tool to help you quickly work out what benefits you’d expect someone to be getting in a given set of circumstances.
Other resources for your tool kit
You’ll want to have these pages bookmarked and ready to use whenever you’re giving benefits advice