Our quarterly meetings are held around the UK and include keynote speakers, workshops and a range of networking and professional development opportunities. Here are details of the next NAWRA meeting: Date: Friday 1 June 2018 Time: 10am – 4pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: Nottingham Law School, Chaucer Building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 5LP The meeting is kindly hosted by Nottingham Read more
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 who contributed by answering our survey. Following the evidence session 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 assessment to check entitlement to any top up of Income 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 in the very short timescale allowed. NAWRA has also been Read more