Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive reference source brings together in one volume practical guidance and advice on the benefits and legal issues surrounding the family and specifically focuses on how benefit entitlement might be affected by circumstances. In addition this title provides information on recent and planned changes to social security, such as the Integrated Child Credit due to be introduced in 2003, as well as the proposed changes to the Child Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000. It provides a succinct guide to the complex areas of welfare and covers benefit law, procedures for claiming and the effects of maintenance payments on benefit entitlement and access to other state provisions. It also provides comprehensive coverage of all the key areas of family related benefits and uses tables, flow charts, precedents and worked examples throughout to illustrate the text. The guide is designed to give family lawyers and welfare advisors a thorough understanding of the benefits available to their clients and the impact of payments and other forms of support on those benefits.
