You couldn't make it up

Haven't had one of these in a while, but how about this?  Things may be about to change, but at present you can take a course at school which leads to a Certificate which is treated as the equivalent of a GCSE, and the subjects covered include - wait for it - discovering what benefits you may be entitled to if you are unemployed, and how to claim them.  Now I've no particular problem with kids being taught such things - indeed for some of them it may well turn out to be a necessary life skill, but what I find unbelievable is that knowing what benefits to claim and how to claim them is seen as an academic qualification!