Online training course from CPAG Scotland
CPAG Scotland offer online training on using the Quick Benefits Calculator. The course is delivered over two half days. The course can also be delivered virtually in house.
Course Details
This course is for people who want to learn how to use QBC (the Quick Benefits Calculator) effectively and confidently.
The course covers:
- Understanding screens, controls, menus and how to get in-calculator help
- Best practice when entering information
- Legacy benefit calculations
- Tax credit calculations
- Universal credit calculations, including changing the transitional element
- "What if" calculations
- Saving, sending and changing cases
- An overview of advanced features
This standard level course is suitable for advisers who already have a good understanding of legacy benefits, tax credits and universal credit. You do not need to have had experience of using QBC, though participants should have a licenced copy of the most recent QBC calculator (as at the date of the course) already installed on their computer to allow them to carry out calculations during the course.
Contact CPAG Scotland for further information.