Category: Campaigns

As NAWRA members are aware, we have been working hard with other organisations to try and resolve the issue of UC50s not being reliably issued following the submission of fitnotes leading to claimants not being put through the WCA and therefore being left for months, or sometimes years, without the LCWRA element being added to their claim. Following our letter to the Minister last year, we had a meeting with officials in January 2023. At this we were told that …

Failure by DWP to initiate WCA and issue UC50 – an update Read more »

    Greater Manchester Law Centre (GMLC) and NAWRA are investigating delays to Pension Credit applications. Thanks to everyone who responded to the survey we sent out last month asking for information on your recent experiences with the Pension Credit service. The findings of the survey along with recommendations are available in the full report and this summary. The survey results show that Pension Credit claimants are often waiting months for claims to be paid which is causing financial hardship. …

Investigating Pension Credit delays Read more »

NAWRA is concerned that bereavement support payment has not been uprated in line with all the other benefits and tax credits, and in fact has not been uprated since it was introduced in 2017. This is because it was introduced under the Pensions Act 2014 which does not require uprating. On 24 Nov 2022, NAWRA wrote to Stephen Timms in his capacity as chair of the Work and Pensions Committee to bring it to his attention and to ask him …

Benefit uprating and Bereavement Support Payment Read more »