Advice NI calls for restoration of NI Executive to provide desperately needed local support as poorest households brace themselves for a winter of crisis and deprivation.
Advice NI Chief Executive delivers sombre assessment of the pressures facing advisers and clients, as the independent advice network continues to deliver for people fearful and distressed by welfare reform, recession, the pandemic, and the cost of living crisis.
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.
