Durham 3 March 2017
Our next meeting will take place from 10am-4pm (registration from 9.30am) on Friday 3 March at Durham Town Hall. Find out more
A Basic Income in the UK – ‘what’s not to like’?
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. It demoralises those most vulnerable in society and creates artificial barriers to individual and societal progress by keeping welfare claimants in the so-called ‘poverty-trap’. Proponents suggest that in order to …
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Meeting in Stoke on Trent 2 Dec 2016
Our next meeting will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at Staffordshire University in Stoke on Trent. Agenda Film screening There will be a special, free screening of The Divide at 7.15pm on Thurs 1 Dec. The screening is in room R001 in the Science Centre on Leek Road: The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK – where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as …
Brian McGarr
Sad news from Durham Welfare Rights: Brian McGarr one of our former colleagues has passed away. A lot of people who are new to Welfare Rights won’t know of Brian. It’s probably only the ‘oldies’ who will remember Brian because he wasn’t active in Welfare Rights for many years due to ill health, but he was one of the pioneers of early Welfare Rights. He started as a community activist in Glasgow, then as a WRO with Strathclyde Regional Council, …
Attendance Allowance consultation
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. Our submission is available here. Thanks to our North-East representative, Julie Henry (Durham County Council), for drafting it.