NAWRA has received a letter from David Rutley, Minister for Welfare Delivery responding to our concerns about the Help to Claim service – in particular, the lack of face-to-face support in the service and the general lack of support for people needing advice given the ramping up of ‘Voluntary move Read more…
NAWRA has submitted a detailed response to the recent consultation on ‘Improving Disability Assistance in Scotland’. In time Disability Assistance will replace Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment and Attendance Allowance as per devolved powers covered in Section 31 of Social Security Act (Scotland) 2018. The points covered in our Read more…
The Equality and Diversity Forum have launched an online handbook to help advisers, and advice services more widely, to identify and challenge potential discrimination within the benefits system. The handbook includes a range of tools and practical help to make it easier for advisers to recognise discrimination issues and to Read more…
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 Read more…
NAWRA is a member of the Scottish Campaign on Welfare Reform (SCoWR). Ahead of further Stage 2 consideration of amendments to the Social Security (Scotland) Bill on 22 February 2018, SCoWR produced a further briefing note for MSPs. This note focuses on amendments in Part 2, Chapter 2 onwards.