National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers

NAWRA has written to the chair of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier MP to draw her attention to our correspondence earlier this year with Neil Couling, Director General for the Universal Credit Programme. We wrote to Neil Couling about specific major problems within the operation of universal credit.  His response did not engage with our concerns and refused to address circumstances where UC is not operating as it should. In the Public Accounts Committee evidence session on 9 July …

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The Public Accounts Committee is holding an inquiry into universal credit. NAWRA recently submitted written evidence to the committee.  Many thanks to everyone who contributed with their evidence about the problems with UC.

June’s NAWRA newsletter is here (just a little bit late). NAWRA reps attend the DWP operational stakeholders’ forum and the PIP forum and this is a summary of useful feedback.

Our quarterly meetings are held around the UK and include keynote speakers, workshops and a range of networking and professional development opportunities. Here are details of the next NAWRA meeting: Date: Friday 1 June 2018 Time: 10am – 4pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: Nottingham Law School, Chaucer Building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 5LP The meeting is kindly hosted by Nottingham Law School Legal Advice Centre and Advice Nottingham. Our guest speakers will be Dr Tom Vickers of Nottingham Trent University, …

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