Price List

WELFARE BENEFITS

FERRET ucFORWARD
The first benefits advice tool that brings together an accurate, simple assessment of a client’s current entitlement to benefits and tax credits with an assessment of their situation under the new benefits schemes including Universal Credit and the new Pension Credits scheme.

Annual charge £95.00

FERRET Fintal 2
The new generation of Ferret’s industry standard Equity Release advice tool. Combines comprehensive means tested benefits and tax assessments with advanced impact assessments of equity release schemes for clients. Full graphical and tabular reports enable advisers and clients to immediately understand the impacts of their potential Equity Release choices.

Annual charge £145.00

FERRET pensionForward
The essential tool for those advising under the new pensions freedoms. Combines comprehensive means tested benefits and grants tax assessments with detailed assessments of the impact of taking capital or income from pension schemes. Full graphical and tabular reports enable advisers and clients to immediately understand the impacts on overall income of their options for making use of their pension savings.

Annual charge £145.00

FERRET incomeForward
incomeForward brings together the Equity Release and pensions calculations from Fintal 2 and pensionForward into one integrated product.

Annual charge £185.00

FERRET FERRCALC
PC based quick calculator for experts. Calculates means tested benefits and tax & pension credits.

Annual charge £65.00

WELFARE REFORM SOLUTIONS

FERRET’S FUTURE BENEFIT MODEL (FFBM)
The FFBM is a sophisticated tax-benefits model designed to analyse the effects of changes in the benefits system over a rolling five year horizon. The model has been widely used by local government, housing associations, academics and the third sector.

Price on Application

STRATI
Ferret's web services benefits calculation solution. It allows individual or bulk assessments, reviews or reassessments to be carried out quickly and easily.

Price on Application

HOUSING GRANTS

RENOVATOR
Calculates entitlement to Housing Grants.

Renovator PC

*Renovator PC program licence £235.00

**Maintenance of Renovator PC £215.00

* A “once off” fee payable at the commencement of a contract.
** For 12 months software updating and for access to the Ferret Helpline. Payable in advance.

DISABLED FACILITIES GRANTS APPLICATION FORM SUITE
A suite of DFG application forms supplied in .pdf format. Customised with address, logo and other elements as required. Kept up to date with legislative changes. No limit to number of installations or copies printed.

Annual charge £115.00

FERRET’S ELECTRONIC FORMS FOR DISABLED FACILITIES GRANTS
A complete web-based forms system for applications and assessments of grants. Includes a stand-alone, self-use, pre-application tool for clients.

Price on Application

FERRET RENOVATION GRANTS LAW - Sources and Commentary
A CD ROM containing a comprehensive encyclopaedia of Housing Grants legislation and guidance. Fully searchable, extensively hyperlinked.

Annual charge £245.00

TRAINING

Please contact us or visit our training pages for details of current online and face to face courses available including Universal Credit, Pensions and Benefits and Housing Grants.

A wide range of In-house and eLearning courses are available

FERRET SUPPORT

Updating - All Ferret software is updated as required by changes to legislation, usually via web-based auto-updating or email based processes.
Ferret Helpline - Free to customers. Ferret consultants provide support on the use of our systems and the legislation on which our programs are based. Available 9-5, Monday-Friday (excluding bank holidays)

PRICES

All prices excluding VAT. Prices are liable to change at any time.
Products supplied subject to Ferret Information Systems Ltd standard terms and conditions.

Terms and Conditions

DISCOUNTS

Discounts are available for multiple purchases of PC based software as follows:

ucForward / pensionForward /Fintal 2 / incomeForward - discount rate of 5% for 2 to 9 copies and 10% for 10 or more copies. Larger discounts apply for 25 copies or more.

FerrCalc / Renovator PC - discount rate of 10% for 2 to 9 copies and 15% for 10 or more copies. Larger discounts apply for 25 copies or more.

DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE

Free evaluation programs are available for most of our products and online demonstrations are available.