Thanks to everyone who came along to NAWRA’s winter conference on Zoom last week. Notes, slides and video from the conference sessions are now available in the members area of our website. NAWRA meets four times a year either on Zoom or in person. Our next conference will take place on 10 March 2023 at Northway Community Centre in Oxford.
NAWRA members will meet on Zoom on Wednesday 7 December 2022 (1.00pm-4.00pm) and Thursday 8 December 2022 (9.30am-1.00pm) Read the agenda We will be hearing from a wide variety of welfare rights practitioners and academics and all members are invited to come along. There’s also an online social event on the evening of Wed 7 Dec for you to meet fellow advisers. NAWRA conferences are free to attend but open to members only. Booking information has been sent to members. …
The Commission on Social Security has worked with the charity On Road Media on a research project about how to talk about social security effectively. The report has some interesting insights and useful tips on messages that work to boost support for a stronger social security system. Read the report
NAWRA is concerned that bereavement support payment has not been uprated in line with all the other benefits and tax credits, and in fact has not been uprated since it was introduced in 2017. This is because it was introduced under the Pensions Act 2014 which does not require uprating. On 24 Nov 2022, NAWRA wrote to Stephen Timms in his capacity as chair of the Work and Pensions Committee to bring it to his attention and to ask him …
Benefit uprating and Bereavement Support Payment Read more »
Update 23 Nov 2022 We have re-sent our letter to Guy Opperman, the newly appointed Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions. – – – 28 Sep 2022 As highlighted in previous conferences, NAWRA has been working with the Strategic Public Law Centre and others to try and resolve the problem of the DWP’s failure to reliably initiate the WCA and issue the UC50, resulting in disabled claimants missing out on the LCWRA element – worth more …
Failure by DWP to initiate WCA and issue UC50 – our letter to the minister Read more »
