Reacting to the Joint Committee report, Advice NI today welcomed the conclusions and recommendations:
The Working Group led by Professor Eileen Evason was established as part of the ‘Fresh Start’ agreement and was tasked with bringing forward proposals within the £585 million financial envelope (and within the 8 sub-envelopes) to maximise the use of these additional resources.
Expert warns of a looming crisis of child poverty, hunger and mass evictions caused by end of mitigations for bedroom tax and benefit cap.
Our Head of Policy spoke with Mark Carruthers on Sunday Politics Northern Ireland about the looming March 2020 mitigations cliff edge.
Universal Credit (UC) has now rolled out across Northern Ireland. Anyone entitled to financial assistance for the first time will receive UC instead of Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance, Employment & Support Allowance, Housing Benefit, Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit.We are delighted to launch our latest training brochure which is packed with lots of new and exciting courses and training programmes.
