Date: Friday 5th June 2015 Time: 9.30am – 4pm Location: MC001 (Main Lecture Theatre), Ground Floor, MC Building, South Campus, Wolverhampton University, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY Agenda Our guest speakers will be Steve Iafrati, senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University and Ruth London of Fuel Poverty Action. There will be workshops on PIP, pension freedoms, the Equality Read more…
Patrick Hill writes: “Since the introduction of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), there have been increasing reports from advisors across the UK that the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) has not been added to income based benefits such as: Employment Support Allowance, Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Pension Credit, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support. Nor have there been claims made to those income based benefits that might become payable due to entitlement Read more…
Neil Bateman writes: Many thanks to everyone who supplied examples of poor practice around MRs by DWP staff. They were very effective. Please continue to send me examples of bad practice in the light of the following: The DWP accept that there have been widespread problems and have now issued Gatekeeper Memo 03.15.38 in an attempt to tackle the problems. The main text Read more…
Our annual report for 2014/15 is being presented to our AGM at Stafffordshire University this afternoon. You can read and download a copy here: NAWRA annual report 2014/15
Our next meeting will take place on Friday 6 March at the University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent. Our guest speakers will be Andrew Hood from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Jackie Cox from Church Action on Poverty. Andrew will present his research on social security spending under the current coalition government and beyond. Jackie will tell us about “The Real Read more…