Members
New benefit changes chart
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
Members
Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system
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 Read more…
Members
First edition of NAWRA News
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 Read more…
Committee
Would you like to join the NAWRA committee?
The committee directs the policy and general management of the affairs of NAWRA. It consists of representatives from each of the English regions plus two from Wales, one from Scotland, one from Northern Ireland and one nominated by CPAG. This gives a total of 14 representatives. The committee meet at Read more…
Members
Letter to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on major problems within the operation of universal credit – failure by DWP to act within the legislation
In Nov 2017, NAWRA wrote to David Gauke MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to highlight three major problems within universal credit. These are not policy issues but operational issues where the legislative processes within universal credit are not being correctly followed and are causing extreme hardship. claimants Read more…