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Local Government Revenues Officer

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Local government revenues and benefits officers collect the council's income, or administer housing and council tax benefits. Their duties include:

• calculating bills for rents, council tax and business rates
• ensuring that bills are sent out on time
• assessing the income and needs of clients to calculate entitlement to housing and council tax benefits
• paying the appropriate benefits
• detecting fraud and taking part in fraud investigations.

To do this job people should:

• be accurate and able to pay attention to detail
• have good communication skills
• be numerate
• be able to work as part of team.

Revenues/benefits officers are based in council offices and normally work a 37-hour week from Monday to Friday.

They start on around £10,800 a year, and salaries can be £15,000 or more in supervisory roles.

To start work, entrants usually need five GCSEs/S grades (A-C/1-3), including maths and English, and sometimes one A level/H grade. To be properly qualified, they need to study for IRRV qualifications at work.

There is no upper age limit to start work as a local revenues/benefits officer. Mature entrants are sometimes preferred because of the sensitive nature of the work.

Full training is given but entrants who have accountancy or other professional qualifications may be given exemption from some professional examinations.

There are employment opportunities throughout the UK and promotion prospects are good.

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