Publications

Health assessments for benefits including Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Attendance Allowance and Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.

This consultation focuses on the main benefits paid to disabled people and people with long-term health conditions of working age. 

This consultation response wishes to express in the strongest possible terms opposition to the proposed Department for Communities budget allocation which includes no allocation for the independent advice sector to support welfare change.

This consultation response wishes to express in the strongest possible terms opposition to the proposed Department for Communities budget allocation which includes no allocation for the independent advice sector to support welfare change.

Red our response to the Programme for Government across 9 key areas.

The Advice NI policy team responded to the Department for the Economy’s consultation on their Energy Strategy.

Advice NI submitted recommendations to the first Independent Review of the Assessment Process in NI (attached with this submission), and we welcome this opportunity to contribute to the second independent review.

The Work and Pensions Committee launched an Inquiry into the Universal Credit wait for a first payment. Advice NI made a submission to the Inquiry and in this paper we provide a summary of the response.

Advice NI response to the Department of Finance and Personnel’s Review of Northern Ireland’s Non-Domestic Rating System

Advice NI response to the Social Security Agency consultation document ‘Proposed Benefit Take-Up Strategy 2004–2005’

Advice NI paper for Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill