New benefit changes chart
We have a produced a new benefit changes chart detailing all the changes since 2011 along with recent and forthcoming changes and analysis of the impact. Read more
Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system
NAWRA member Sarah Batty has contributed to the Social Policy Association’s 50th anniversary blog series with a piece about the workshops facilitated by Dr Michael Orton of Warwick University at NAWRA meetings in 2016 and 2017 on the topic of ‘Putting the security back into social security’. The aim was to use consensus-building to identify key short to medium-term actions to return security to the benefits system. Read the blog.
First edition of NAWRA News
First edition of NAWRA news now out – find out how DWP will be contacting claimants who have been underpaid ESA and advice on how to challenge decisions where the DWP have restricted backdating. NAWRA has been campaigning on this issue for some time and the National Audit Office has recently confirmed that the DWP first knew about the error at least as early as 2013 but have done nothing about it till now, NAWRA will be campaigning further to …
Impact of welfare reform
The Equality and Human RIghts Commission have published their final cumulative report on the impact of government Welfare Reforms. The report suggests that children will be hit hardest with an extra 1.5 million being pushed into poverty. In addition, the report finds that the child poverty rate for those in lone parent households will increase from 37% to over 62% and households with three or more children will see losses of around £5,600. They also identify significant and disproportionate impacts …
NAWRA meeting in Stockton on 9 March 2018
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 9 March 2018 Time: 10am – 4.15pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: Stockton Tabernacle, The Square, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1TE The meeting is kindly hosted by Stockton on Tees Borough Council Welfare Rights Service. Our guest speakers will be Alex Cunningham MP and Tracey Herrington of the Poverty Truth …