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QBC - making the most of your calculator

CPAG in Scotland

This event is in the past

This course is for people who want to learn how use QBC effectively and confidently.

It 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. It isn’t necessary 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.

This ‘one-day equivalent’ course will be delivered online over two mornings as follows;

27 January 2021

10.00 - 11.15 training session delivered via Zoom

11.15 - 11.45 break

11.45 - 1.00 training session delivered via Zoom

28 January 2021

Repeat of day 1 schedule

Participants will receive an email link, a few days before the start of the course, to allow access to the event and instructions on how to use QBC during a zoom meeting.

Date
10:00, 27 January to 28 January 2021
Contact
Jo Blyth
01415523303
Theme
Social justice & poverty
Cost
Various - see website
Attendance type
Online only
Venue
https://cpag.org.uk/training-and-events/events/qbc-making-most-your-calculator-scotland-27-28-january-2021-online
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