Free webinar: How going digital can save you money: a guide with the DWP

In our free webinar, AbilityNet's Disability Consultant, Lizi Green, highlighted cost savings you can make by going digital.

Plus, Lucy Bowman from the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provided guidance about claiming pensioner benefits, and where to find information about these online.

Aimed at older people and some of the issues they may commonly face, in the webinar we discussed key topics on:

• Top online cost-saving ideas
• Key digital-related benefit information from DWP 
• Benefit Calculators 
• Pension Credit
• Where to find useful financial resources online

Who will benefit from this webinar?

The session will benefit:

• Older people and disabled adults
• Carers of older people or disabled adults
• Health professionals working with older people or disabled adults
• People interested in tech and digital devices
• Web and Accessibility professionals interested in design and digital considerations for older people and disabled adults

If you work for an organisation that helps older people or disabled adults, this webinar shares useful resources and advice to help your clients.

This session is part of AbilityNet's work with telecommunications company BT Group to help older and digitally excluded people to build online skills and confidence. 

Q&A

This webinar ran for 45 minutes and included an opportunity to pose questions to the speakers. Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Meet your panellists

Lizi Green, AbilityNet

Lizi Green is Disability Consultant at AbilityNet. She started working at AbilityNet in 2016 and over the years she has worked her way up through the levels of the team and is now responsible for delivering Disability Inclusion sessions, and developing workplace inclusion services to a range of clients across all sectors. Lizi has worked as an administration manager which gave her experience in leading multiple teams across the organisation.  

She is passionate about assistive technology being widely available and easily accessible. As part of her role she runs tech demo events that showcase free and low cost apps to help in education.

Lucy Bowman, Department for Work and Pensions

Lucy Bowman works in the Department for Work and Pensions' Strategic Relationship Team. She’s worked for the department for over 30 years in a wide variety of roles, including front-line operations, employer and partnership engagement, and policy. Her current role as a senior relationship manager involves working in partnership with external organisations on shared objectives and projects to support our customers and service users. 
 

Do you know an elderly person or a group of older people or disabled adults who want to know more about using digital devices?

Slides for the webinar

Download your own copy of the slides used in the webinar [PPT]

Transcript for the webinar

Download the transcript of this webinar [DOC]

Useful links

• Blog: Using technology to help elderly relatives from afar 
• Sign up to the AbilityNet newsletter for more free resources like this webinar!
• Find out about AbilityNet's Digital accessibility services
• Pension credit walkthrough video
• Pension Credit calculator
• How to use the Pension Credit Eligibility Calculator video
• Information on the New State Pension