Our next conference will take place from 10am-4pm (registration from 9.30am) on Friday 7 September 2018 at the Renfield St Stephen’s Centre, 260 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP. Many thanks to Glasgow City Council for hosting us. We are pleased to announce that our guest speakers will be the newly Read more
The Social Security Advisory Committee recently ran a consultation on government proposals for moving claimants to universal credit from other working age benefits, known as ‘managed migration’. Thanks to all the NAWRA members who contributed to our survey of members views and to Daphne for drafting our submission. NAWRA has Read more
The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into universal credit. On 4 July 2018, NAWRA’s vice chair Daphne Hall gave oral evidence to the Committee on the problems with the rollout of universal credit, particularly for disabled people. NAWRA has followed this up with further written observations and Read more
NAWRA has sent an email to the Director General for the Universal Credit Programme, Neil Couling, to highlight the concerns reported by NAWRA members in universal credit full service areas. In particular, we have raised the problems experienced by claimants applying for new-style ESA in a full service universal credit Read more
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 Read more