NEWS - Winter 2011
HBLearning has been updated to reflect all the recent Housing Benefit legislation changes.
The course material has been updated to include:
• the extension of the definition of a ’young individual’ to include single people aged up to their 35th birthday instead of their 25th birthday.
• the two new exemptions to the shared accommodation rate and the single room rent for people aged between 25 and 34 who have either been housed in specialist homeless hostels for at least three months, or who are violent ex-offenders subject to MAPPA.
• an explanation of the 16-19 Bursary Fund for the most vulnerable students which replaced Education Maintenance Allowance from September 2011, including how to treat payments received from the fund.
• revised student course material for the 2011/2012 academic year, using new types and current rates of student income.
• the fact that a full disregard applies to Caxton Foundation payments made to people who have contracted the Hepatitus C virus as a result of NHS treatment.
In addition to the above, the PFA quizzes have now been fully updated and reactivated.
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Welcome to HB Learning, the comprehensive training and reference resource for people working in Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. The resources available from this site include a high quality e-learning resource and an HB Alerts service.
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The broad-ranging e-learning facility is a single resource, built around the requirements of both the New Starter and the Existing Practitioner
New starter training – accessible and engaging
Menu-based, easy-to-use training material designed to take new starters in HB and CTB from understanding benefit types and eligibility through to calculating benefits. Case studies put claim scenarios in to context and a tutorial ensures that course content is understood.
Experienced practitioners – knowledge resource and refresher
In-depth reference library for more experienced claims practitioners covering everything from managing overpayments through to fraud investigation and prosecution and regularly updated with the most recent changes in HB and CTB legislation.
Legislative changes - stay current
The HB Alerts service is the ideal way to augment the e-learning.
An e-mail alerts service bringing you the very latest updates and changes to legislation along with incisive commentary and interpretation of the new rules. This service remains free to all local authorities so register now to start receiving your Alerts.
HB Learning News
New Administrator Reports released
Two new reports have now been released to provide LA administrators with additional information relating to the use of the HBLearning system and the progress of all users in the quizzes. More...
Course Administration
Do you want to see how HBLearning can help your organisation? It is now possible to register as an E-learning course administrator. As an administrator you can set up and monitor groups of users. More...
