Tolley's Practical Guide to State Benefits and Personal Injury Awards

Over 3 million people are injured in accidents each year on the roads, at work, inside and outside the home. In addition, there are incidents of disability, disease and illness that affect a great number of people. What financial support is available when such incidents occur? What state benefits are available? What happens if, or when, an award of compensation is made? Will the Government ask for any money back from compensation? How do lump sum awards affect benefits? This guide provides authoritative, accessible and practical guidance on benefit law. Personal injury here is taken to mean injury, illness, disease, disability or incapacity where someone else may be wholly or partly to blame. The whole area of benefit entitlement following a loss of income due to injury is complicated. Many of the rules changed in 2001, which has only served to increase confusion and the number of claims and appeals.