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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.

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.

With students arriving at University to commence a new academic year, the Advice NI Policy & Information team has published an information briefing for advisers covering Universal Credit eligibility for students.

Eight years fighting for client results in successful outcome

Backing the “Keep Me Posted” campaign, Kevin Higgins, Head of Policy at Advice NI joined Judith Donovan CBE from Keep Me Posted to discuss the crucial need for continued paper-based correspondence for Universal Credit claimants.

Advice NI publish a comprehensive policy paper aimed at improving various fundamental problems affecting Universal Credit claimants
 

The Welfare Reform Group has made a number of recommendations designed to better protect social security claimants who are moving to Universal Credit.

Employees who are paid early at Christmas may be affected by a flaw in the Universal Credit (UC) system whereby claimants may be treated as receiving two monthly wages in one assessment period, resulting in a dramatically reduced or even nil Universal Credit award.