Benefits and Department of Work & Pensions

Lead: Keri Lawrence, Development Worker

Background

The project seeks to:

• Spread awareness on updates, changes and proposals on Welfare Benefits, looking at how people may be affected and what they might be able to ensure that receive they are entitled to. 
• Link in with Job Centre Plus locally to help provide strong 2-way communication links

We have produced a 2-page Introduction to Employment and Support Allowance which you can download here. Further Updates will be published in Network News which you can download from here.

If you have a story to share, anonymously if you'd prefer, please send this addressed to Keri Lawrence. 

Contact us

On a national level, Mind are heavily involved in Benefit and Welfare Reform, you can find out more about their work at their website, linked below:
http://www.mind.org.uk/campaigns_and_issues/policy_and_issues/making_benefits_fairer-welfare_reform