The Social Security Advisory Committee are reviewing decision-making and mandatory reconsideration in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The review is part of the committee’s independent work programme and will focus on mandatory reconsideration before appeal. As part of NAWRA’s aims to challenge, influence and improve welfare rights policy and legislation, we undertook Read more…
Our next meeting will take place in Belper in Derbyshire on Friday 11 March 2016. More information
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is urgently looking for case studies following the Court of Appeal’s decision in R(Rutherford) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2016] EWCA Civ 29, which is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court. They are keen to hear about any families with disabled children who have been affected by the housing benefit Read more…
Thanks to everybody who came along to the NAWRA meeting at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland on Friday, and to Sunderland City Council’s welfare rights team for hosting us. Prof Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy at Durham University, delivered the Phil Hanns memorial lecture on how neoliberalist politics and economics has affected the most vulnerable in society. Read more…
Many thanks to all those NAWRA members who contributed to the CPAG survey on reasons for food bank use. The response rate was fantastic, with more than 200 advisers filling in the survey. This formed the biggest part of a submission to Feeding Britain’s update report on behalf of twelve charities and faith groups, brought together under the banner of Read more…