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 invited to give oral evidence to the Committee on Monday 21 May.
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
NAWRA member Sarah Batty has contributed to the Social Policy Association’s 50th anniversary blog series with a piece about the workshops facilitated by Dr Michael Orton of Warwick University at NAWRA meetings in 2016 and 2017 on the topic of ‘Putting the security back into social security’. The aim was to use consensus-building to identify key short to medium-term actions to return security to the benefits system. Read the blog.
First edition of NAWRA news now out – find out how DWP will be contacting claimants who have been underpaid ESA and advice on how to challenge decisions where the DWP have restricted backdating. NAWRA has been campaigning on this issue for some time and the National Audit Office has recently confirmed that the DWP first knew about the error at least as early as 2013 but have done nothing about it till now, NAWRA will be campaigning further to …
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 9 March 2018 Time: 10am – 4.15pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: Stockton Tabernacle, The Square, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1TE The meeting is kindly hosted by Stockton on Tees Borough Council Welfare Rights Service. Our guest speakers will be Alex Cunningham MP and Tracey Herrington of the Poverty Truth …
