Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Handbook 2008/09

The new handbook gives you comprehensive coverage of all welfare benefits and tax credits. This fully revised and updated edition includes the latest information on benefit and tax credit overpayments, the right to reside test and telephone and Internet claiming.

There is full coverage of income support, JSA and work tests, housing benefit, the social fund, incapacity benefit and the personal capability assessment, pensions, benefits for maternity, paternity, adoption, disability, children, retirement and more. Also detailed is administration, contributions and earnings, rules for special groups, including 16/17 year olds, students and people from abroad, backdating, overpayments, fraud, and challenging decisions, including appeals.

Accessible and authoritative, the annually updated book is fully indexed and cross-referenced to law, regulations and official guidance, and also to court and commissioners' decisions. Information is fully cross-referenced between the social security and tax systems to ensure it is fully up to date.