NAWRA has written, alongside Housing Systems and LITRG, to Neil Couling, Peter Schofield and others to raise our concerns about the lack of transparency around the calculation of transitional protection when claimants migrate to universal credit. Read our letter
NAWRA has submitted a response to the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into the DWP’s progress in implementing universal credit. We raised concerns in a number of areas including – while around a quarter of tax credit claimants are failing to migrate despite losing on average £300 per month, DWP do Read more…
Update 23 Nov 2022 We have re-sent our letter to Guy Opperman, the newly appointed Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions. – – – 28 Sep 2022 As highlighted in previous conferences, NAWRA has been working with the Strategic Public Law Centre and others to try Read more…
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…
The government has conceded to an Early Day Motion, tabled by Mark Tami MP and signed by 73 others, calling for Universal Credit to be payable up to the day before State Pension is paid. In response to the news, NAWRA released the following statement: This is a great achievement Read more…