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 assessment to check entitlement to any top up of Income 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 in the very short timescale allowed. NAWRA has also been Read more
Campaigns
Challenging discrimination in welfare benefits
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 help services to build equality rights into advice delivery. It 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