South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (STEP) is expanding their community advice and services teams in the Cookstown and Magherafelt areas and is recruiting for a Generalist Adviser.
Kevin Higgins, Head of Policy Advice NI, examines the issue of Winter Fuel Payments; the proposed changes; and the choices facing the NI Executive in terms of what could happen in Northern Ireland.
With the Department for Communities currently issuing thousands of Migration Notice letters each month to people on Tax Credits as part of its ‘Move to UC’ programme, we want to make sure that those affected get the right advice about the timing of their claim in order to maximise their entitlement to the 6.7% benefit uprating from April.
People on the lowest incomes – both in and out of work – have endured a decade of austerity; with freezes and cuts to social security benefits and in-work support; hollowing out support, undermining resilience and ability to cope with adversity.
Advice NI, Rural Support and The Ulster Farmers’ Union have expressed their collective concern over the impact on many of the 134,000 self-employed people in Northern Ireland who currently rely on tax credits and who will be impacted by ‘Move to UC’.
