Benefits & Tax Credits

Background / Overview

Social Security law and administration change with alarming frequency. New agencies replace old, old benefits get new names, "credits" replace benefits, and rates and premiums change with frightening rapidity.

How can the adviser keep abreast of these changes?

Ferret software can assist both the specialist and less experienced adviser give accurate up to date advice about benefits, tax and pension credits, and even take a look into the future at the interaction between tax credits and Housing Benefits.

Options

With our advanced and detailed rule-based systems you get the capability to provide a range of services from the simplest stand-alone calculator to the most sophisticated integrated authority wide advice and assessment system. All backed by our support system manned by some of the country's leading benefits specialists, our constant monitoring of legislation and our unmatched depth and accuracy of assessment.

We can provide solutions to:

• Meet the corporate needs of a scaleable organisation;
• Meet the needs of individual departments;
• Meet the needs of individuals or small offices.

Today we can provide both advisor and consumer oriented solutions available on multiple platforms including: PC, Networks, Intranets, Public Web, Kiosks, Handheld PDA's and mobile phones.

• Maximiser: The PC based program that ensures advisers collect all the necessary information for the calculation of means tested and non-means tested welfare benefits as well as tax and pension credits. It enables accurate advice to be given about almost all benefits and tax credits in the UK, and is supported by a vast context sensitive help system.
• PoCKit: The program to calculate means tested benefits tax and pension credits that runs on Windows Mobile machines. This allows full secure portability. Ideal for home visits or to outreach locations.
• Ferrcalc: The fast accurate PC program for more experienced/expert advisers. Handles means tested benefits and tax and pension credits. Basic information is entered on a single screen making it ideal for "what if" calculations.
• Webben Pro: The intranet based program to calculate means tested welfare benefits as well as tax and pension credits. It ensures the necessary information is collected, and is supported by a context sensitive help system.
• Social Security Law: This CD ROM contains all the law and guidance relating to social security and child support as well as a huge amount of precedent. For anyone preparing an appeal of housing benefit decisions the fully searchable archive contains all the necessary material in one place.
• BAMM: Multi media benefits advice accessible by the general public. This program runs on public access sites and as well as providing the platform for self-assessment of benefit entitlement incorporates information about local and national benefit providers.

You can give accurate benefits advice, and you'll be right first time with Ferret.