Policy in Practice is a social policy software and analytics company working with councils, government, housing providers and community organisations. We are policy experts who combine cutting-edge tech, insightful data and expert analysis. We help organisations analyse the impact of policy, identify and engage the people impacted, and track change
Our award winning Benefit and Budgeting calculator, linked to from GOV.UK, helps around 10,000 people every day find out what support they could get. With around £16 billion of benefits going unclaimed every year, it is much needed.
It is the best tool available to help frontline advisors grow the financial strength of customers without the need to be a welfare expert themselves. The tool helps advisors to securely and confidentially identify benefits they may be eligible for, to give them the widest range of support. Using the customer’s own information it can calculate their future income to help them plan expenditure, including rent, from month to month, so they can take control of their money and become financially stronger.
Our housing provider clients use the Benefit and Budgeting Calculator to:
- Accurately maximise income
- Compare different scenarios
- Create a positive action plan
- Explain complex changes simply
- Identify ways to improve budgeting
- Give consistent and up-to-date advice
- Save, store and access cases efficiently
“The customer is going to be £7,000 a year better off. Without the Benefit and Budgeting Calculator I’m not sure that case would have ever made its way to our team because the customer wasn’t in arrears, she was paying and she never had any idea she could claim any benefits.” – Nadine Burns, Customer Support Team Manager, The Guinness Partnership
