Estimator: children’s legal aid

This estimator helps you work out if you are likely to qualify financially for children's legal aid.

Once you complete these fields, an estimate will automatically be provided.

"*" indicates required fields

Step 1: Do you automatically qualify financially?

You must know the type of any benefit you receive to find out if you automatically qualify. You can usually see the type of benefit you are receiving by checking your most recent benefit award letter.

If you do not have an up to date award letter or you are in any doubt about which benefit you receive you should contact your local benefits office.

You automatically qualify if you receive or you are included in your partner’s claim for any of the following benefits:

  • Income Support
  • Income based Jobseekers Allowance
  • Income based Employment and Support Allowance
  • Universal Credit

That means you will not have to pay a financial contribution towards your case if your application is successful. You do not need to proceed to the Steps below.

You do not automatically qualify if you:

  • Receive Jobseekers Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance which is contribution based.

If you do not automatically qualify, you should complete the Steps below.

Do you automatically qualify financially?*
Do you receive, or you are included in your partner’s claim, for any of the following benefits: Income Support Income based Jobseekers Allowance Income based Employment and Support Allowance Universal Credit

Estimate

An estimate will be provided, when you have completed each of these fields:

  • Do you automatically qualify financially?
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Hidden Variables

The field names for each of the hidden variables should be self-descriptive. If the number of allowance brackets change, this form will need rewritten. If the number of brackets sstays the same, but the limits change, then just adapt the variables accordingly. Use numbers, not currency.
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Hidden Calculations

All of the below is where the "magic" happens. Note the followning. 1. There is a JS file in /resources/assets/js/gravity-extras.js, which communicates with these variables. It was not possble to do everything we needed in Gravity Forms alone. This is an uncompiled file, so gulp will need to run before changes will be committed to the front-end version of the site. 2. The HTML content blocks above include a couple of spans with unique IDs. If you choose to remove those Spans, then the user will never see the outputs from the contribution scales.
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Calculated here, and the gravity-extras.js JQUERY is then used to populate the publicly visible version. DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THIS.
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The maximum_disposable_income is divided by 52. If their weekly_income is more than this, then no legal aid.
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The minimum_disposable_income is divided by 52. If their weekly_income is less than this, then full legal aid is available (if not ruled out on capital). If their weekly_income is greater than this, and less than "capital less maximum disposable capital", then they will need to pay a contribution.
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This is calculated using jQuery. Basically if they have a disposable income greater than minimum_disposable_income / 52, then this is a positive value.

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