NAWRA was invited to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee concerning the DWP’s errors in migrating claimants over from incapacity benefit to ESA. This was due to our involvement in writing to the Secretary of State and our response to the consultation – thank you again to all members Read more
In our second NAWRA newsletter we describe the help available to advisers to bring equality rights into our everyday advice work.
NAWRA members have identified many former Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance claimants who have been migrated to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), and only been awarded contributory ESA. This is because the Department for Work and Pensions have failed to apply the regulations and their own guidance and undertake a financial Read more
NAWRA has submitted a response to the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into the errors made when incapacity benefit claimants who were migrated over to contributory ESA (cESA) were not assessed for income-related ESA (irESA). A big thank you to all those who took the time to respond to the survey Read more
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