Are You Evaluating In Work Benefit Calculators?
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Policy in Practice's Universal Benefit Calculator has everything you need to help people set realistic job goals - the first step on the journey of getting into work. You can show people what benefits they can get under Universal Credit and the current system, provide advice on where savings might be made and create a simple, straightforward action plan, all in one integrated platform. This webinar covered: > Why 83% of advisors think the Policy in Practice calculator is faster > Why 69% of advisors think the Policy in Practice calculator is easier to use > Why 75% of customers find the visuals useful > Why customers are 85% more likely to understand the welfare system > Why advisors using the calculator “were 3 times more effective is getting people into work” > How a good budgeting tool can help you triage your customers to partner organisations, saving you time and support resources Contact hello@policyinpractice.co.uk for more details or call 0330 088 9242.
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Are You Evaluating In Work Benefit Calculators?
- 1. We simplify the welfare system
- 2. Housekeeping www.policyinpractice.co.uk 1. Audio check 2. Please ask questions 3. Finish by 11:15 4. Webinar recording 5. Next steps
- 3. Today’s Agenda 1. Introduction 2. The budget – contextualisation 3. The Universal Benefit Calculator • Better off in work • Budgeting www.policyinpractice.co.uk
- 4. Peter Carter www.policyinpractice.co.uk • Worked to deliver process improvement in Revs and Benefits for a number of LAs • Practical delivery of welfare reforms with Policy in Practice • Delivered DHP policy with Welfare Reform Club
- 5. About Policy in Practice Consultancy SoftwarePolicy www.policyinpractice.co.uk
- 6. The Context £12bn of welfare savings Universal Credit … and what you can do about it… www.policyinpractice.co.uk
- 7. Summer Budget: Living Wage fails to compensate for cuts to tax credits www.policyinpractice.co.uk http://policyinpractice.co.uk/summer-budget-living-wage- fails-to-compensate-for-cuts-to-tax-credits/
- 8. The Universal Benefit Calculator www.policyinpractice.co.uk www.universal-benefit-calculator.co.uk
- 10. Next Steps We’ll email you: • This webinar recording • Link to our blog www.policyinpractice.co.uk Our next webinar: Mapping the impact of welfare reform and Universal Credit, with your own data Tues 28 July 12:30 to 1:30 Register www.policyinpractice.co.uk/events
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- Hi, I’m Lisa from Policy in Practice. Our mission is to reduce poverty. We do this through simplifying the welfare system. Story: About Policy in Practice: It’s how you communicate policy that matters [Policy – UC report, FIC; Consultancy – USDL evaluation and I will explain; Software – Live demo The current context – Universal Credit, alongside other changes designed to make savings We know three changes We don’t know the rest… (infographic) Policy: Universal Credit and its aggregate impact Practice: How useful is this? The real question - What does this mean for me? One – a system that illustrates the impact (choose a case to show how UC is different, and why) Two – how this can help you to better target support – based on a case study in Leeds, and now Birmingham Summary There is uncertainty, but you can plan for it: Identify not only who is affected, but how they are affected Engage people by showing them how the reforms will impact them (both self-service and targeted) and showing them wiifm Evaluate your activities by trialling different approaches, learn what works and share with others To start off with, I’d like to tell you a bit about Policy in Practice. We were founded by Deven Ghelani, who was part of the team that developed Universal Credit at the Centre for Social Justice. When UC was adopted, he saw this as a unique opportunity that not many people have in the policy world – to have your idea actually be put into practice – so he had two options: to move on to the next policy report, or to try make Universal Credit work. He founded Policy in Practice to address the gap between policy and practice. We do a variety of different things to achieve this. We do policy research, which is mostly what I will be talking to you about today. We also do consultancy work, mostly for local authorities, to help them better understand the impact of welfare reform, or to help them develop their own schemes. We also have a range of outcome-based software tools, like our Universal Benefit and Budgeting calculators that help our clients to be more effective in supporting customers and deliver policy intent. Before joining Policy in Practice, my personal background was working in frontline services, for charities like Turning Point and Centrepoint, supporting people with substance misuse issues and homeless young people. I have also done some volunteering at a homeless day centre in Manchester. In those roles I dealt with the benefit system on a daily basis and found it a challenge, to say the least. While at Centrepoint, I helped one of my young people get a job at the local Co-op. The impact on her was incredible. She developed a routine and gained a great deal of confidence. However the impact on her finances was very difficult. Her JSA and HB stopped the day she started working, even though she wouldn’t get paid for another month. She accrued rent arrears and had to be referred to a food bank to get through that first month without either benefits or pay. It seemed like the system was punishing her for trying to improve her situation.
- Hi, I’m Lisa from Policy in Practice. Our mission is to reduce poverty. We do this through simplifying the welfare system. Story: About Policy in Practice: It’s how you communicate policy that matters [Policy – UC report, FIC; Consultancy – USDL evaluation and I will explain; Software – Live demo The current context – Universal Credit, alongside other changes designed to make savings We know three changes We don’t know the rest… (infographic) Policy: Universal Credit and its aggregate impact Practice: How useful is this? The real question - What does this mean for me? One – a system that illustrates the impact (choose a case to show how UC is different, and why) Two – how this can help you to better target support – based on a case study in Leeds, and now Birmingham Summary There is uncertainty, but you can plan for it: Identify not only who is affected, but how they are affected Engage people by showing them how the reforms will impact them (both self-service and targeted) and showing them wiifm Evaluate your activities by trialling different approaches, learn what works and share with others To start off with, I’d like to tell you a bit about Policy in Practice. We were founded by Deven Ghelani, who was part of the team that developed Universal Credit at the Centre for Social Justice. When UC was adopted, he saw this as a unique opportunity that not many people have in the policy world – to have your idea actually be put into practice – so he had two options: to move on to the next policy report, or to try make Universal Credit work. He founded Policy in Practice to address the gap between policy and practice. We do a variety of different things to achieve this. We do policy research, which is mostly what I will be talking to you about today. We also do consultancy work, mostly for local authorities, to help them better understand the impact of welfare reform, or to help them develop their own schemes. We also have a range of outcome-based software tools, like our Universal Benefit and Budgeting calculators that help our clients to be more effective in supporting customers and deliver policy intent. Before joining Policy in Practice, my personal background was working in frontline services, for charities like Turning Point and Centrepoint, supporting people with substance misuse issues and homeless young people. I have also done some volunteering at a homeless day centre in Manchester. In those roles I dealt with the benefit system on a daily basis and found it a challenge, to say the least. While at Centrepoint, I helped one of my young people get a job at the local Co-op. The impact on her was incredible. She developed a routine and gained a great deal of confidence. However the impact on her finances was very difficult. Her JSA and HB stopped the day she started working, even though she wouldn’t get paid for another month. She accrued rent arrears and had to be referred to a food bank to get through that first month without either benefits or pay. It seemed like the system was punishing her for trying to improve her situation.
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