Members
NAWRA newsletter – using equality arguments to help your clients
In our second NAWRA newsletter we describe the help available to advisers to bring equality rights into our everyday advice work.
Members
Letter to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about income related ESA
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
ESA
IB to ESA migration – NAWRA’s report to the Public Accounts Committee
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
Members
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
Members
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 Read more