NAWRA member, Richard Machin from Staffordshire University, has written an excellent piece for online journal ‘The Conversation’ entitled “A welfare adviser’s view on Universal Credit: a flawed system that emphasises process over people.” Richard highlights myriad problems with the rollout of Universal Credit and highlights NAWRAs position on implict consent. Richard Read more…
NAWRA is proud to support Challenge Poverty Week in Scotland. The main aims of the week, which runs from 15-21 October 2017, are to: Highlight the reality of poverty and challenge the stereotypes that about exist about it; Demonstrate what is being done across Scotland to address poverty Increase public Read more…
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of long time NAWRA member, Jane Emerson. Jane, who was just 56 years old, was a dedicated welfare rights worker who fought tirelessly for her clients and for wider rights issues, particularly around disability. She was a regular attendee at Read more…
UBIE event 24th–26th March 2017, London Here, our North Wales committee representative, Eri Mountbatten, provides a summary of the Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) weekend held in London on 24th – 26th March 2017. Eri asks, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) a utopian exercise in socialist Sympatico, or can it Read more…
We have written to Damian Green MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to raise concerns about what we see as the DWPs failure to follow correct legal procedures on conversion of incapacity benefit claimants to employment and support allowance. The full text of our letter is reproduced below. Read more…