NAWRA has sent a formal response to the Work and Pensions Committee Universal credit update inquiry. Thank you to all the members who responded to our request for information – your help has been invaluable, as always. NAWRA has serious concerns about Universal Credit – in particular as the full service Read more…
NAWRA issued the following press release on Friday 3rd March 2017: The government has announced shock plans to restrict entitlement to the disability benefit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) strongly refutes the claims made by government that two recent court decisions (1) in Read more…
Our annual report for 2016 can now be downloaded and will be presented at our conference in Durham on 3rd March 2017. If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions for future activity, please let us know.
Eri Mountbatten, our North Wales elected representative on the NAWRA committee, writes about the concept of a basic (or citizens) income: What is basic (or citizens) income? For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, the central and arguably well founded assumption is that the current welfare system is broken. Read more…
NAWRA has submitted a response to the ‘Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention’ consultation voicing our concern at the proposal that Attendance Allowance would no longer be a cash benefit in England and Wales if responsibility for it transfers from the DWP to each local authority’s social care budget. Read more…