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• Only two months left to boost State Pension by filling gaps in National Insurance records from 2006 onwards
• Since the launch of the digital service last April, 37,000 people have topped up more than 68,000 years, worth £35 million

HMRC urges customers to file their Self Assessment tax returns ahead of the 31 January 2025 deadline to avoid a £100 late filing penalty. More than 7.4 million Self Assessment customers have already filed their tax return for the 2023 to 2024 tax year.

Our Head of Policy, Kevin Higgins, recently briefed the Northern Ireland Assembly's Committee for Communities.

Northern Ireland currently has the highest rate of non-internet users within the UK

Join us at our AGM - "Digital Transformation - Making it Work for Everyone?"

Advice NI Annual General Meeting calls for restoration of NI Executive to provide desperately needed local support as poorest households brace themselves for a winter of crisis and deprivation.

We welcome the announcement from Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey that the end date for bedroom tax mitigations has been removed.

Eight years fighting for client results in successful outcome

Advice NI, the independent advice charity, has identified serious systemic failures affecting Universal Credit claimants, in particular Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) claimants moving from ESA to Universal Credit (UC). 

There is less than a week to go until our AGM which will take place on the 25th February 2020 at 9.30am in Riddel Hall, Stranmillis Belfast. 

It’s been a busy few months on the advice line. People concerned with the Welfare Mitigations Cliff Edge due at the end of March 2020. Something that could affect up to 35,000 households in Northern Ireland. See below for some recent cases from the Welfare Reform Team.