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How Does Centrelink Treat Compensation Payments & Assets
- 2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Skills
Receiving compensation for lost income due to an injury or traumatic event can be emotionally restorative and provide people with greater financial freedom, however many people may not realise the impact it can have on their Centrelink payments.
Similarly, people who are planning for a new financial period of their lives, such as downsizing in their retirement, may not understand how the sale of their primary residence and purchase of a new primary residence will be treated by Centrelink in the asset test.
In this session, Eloise Cox, Community Lawyer with Social Security Rights Victoria’s Integrated Services Project, have given an overview of compensation preclusion periods, the assets test, income deeming provisions and common challenges people face in these areas.
This session has also addressed the avenues people can pursue when they do not agree with a Centrelink decision – including appeals – and what help is available for clients and community workers (i.e. when and what SSRV can help with).
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Social Security and Centrelink
Identifying financial elder abuse
- 2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Skills
Identifying financial elder abuse session has introduce ‘My Financial Health Check’. This tool helps older clients to engage with the financial issues they may be facing and to seek assistance. Katrina Barrett and Michael Kirkness have provided rich examples of financial elder abuse and how it becomes apparent during discussions with a client. Possible remedies are also covered.
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- Topics: Elder Abuse
Including Gambling regulators in client and systemic advocacy
- 2-3 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
The National and State Gambling regulators have jurisdiction and the ability to impact on gambling harm in our community. As financial counsellors we can learn about the various regulators, their limitations and abilities and how to use a regulator to create systemic change, as well as individual client impacts.
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- Topics: Gambling related harm
Insolvency refresher
- 2-2.5 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
This Small Business in-depth webinar has provided a refresher on company insolvency for small business financial counsellors. The session has covered the various pathways to insolvency, and provide updates to changes to the insolvency regime – including Small Business Restructuring – in the post-Covid era. The presenters have addressed some key issues of concern facing SBFCs trying to assist small business company owners/ directors, such as: when company debts become personal debts; director liability when directorship resulted from coercion or economic abuse; how best to assist small business owners when they can’t afford liquidation; processes to deregister a company when liquidation can’t be afforded.
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- Topics: Small Business
Insurance Law-Part 1 e-Learning
- 2 hrs
- 2 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
In this e-Leaning Philippa and Catherine will guide you through the key concepts in insurance law that you need to know to help your clients.
This course is intended to provide you with the tools you will need to assist your clients in a number of common insurance matters. While it doesn’t cover every insurance matter, it does provide an overview of the protections your clients have under the law.
To access the course, click the button below and then click on the button that says “Enroll for free”. You will be prompted to create an account, if you don’t already have one, which will take less than a minute. If you do already have an account, please just follow the link ‘I already have an account’.
Please note that in order to get your CPD points, you will need to download the document at the end (under the page “Submit your responses”), fill in the responses and upload it in the e-learning platform itself.
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- Topics: Insurance
Insurance Law: Natural Disasters and Junk Funeral Products
- 2-3 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
In this session recording you will learn how to support clients with insurance issues. The first half of this session has covered issues that follow floods, bushfires and storms. The second half of the session have explored issues that have arisen following the collapse of Youpla (Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund – ACBF).
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- Topics: Insurance