Benefits Advice for Social Care Agencies

Milton Keynes CAB provides benefits advice to people who are involved with 
the Commission for Social Care Inspection, Social Care Institute for Excellence, 
General Social Care Council, or Skills for Care, and to organisations that are supporting their work.

Advice is given according to individual circumstances on:

• how much you can be paid for involvement, without your benefits being affected
• making sure that Jobcentre Plus understand that involvement is different to work;
• how to avoid reimbursed expenses being treated as earnings;
• how to keep to your benefit conditions.

If CSCI or SCIE or GSCC or SfC or an organisation that is supporting their work, asks you to become involved with them, a social care agency member of staff can offer you access to this free confidential telephone service provided by our trained advisors who are specialists in involvement benefit advice.

Health and social care organisations can subscribe to the Involvement Helpline so that service users and carers you involve can also get free specialist advice on involvement and benefits.