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Welfare Reform: Challenges, Choices and International Insight | 15/05/2007
Welfare Reform: Challenges, Choices and International Insight
 
Advice NI response to Draft Charges Scheme for Northern Ireland Water Ltd | 07/03/2007
Advice NI response to Draft Charges Scheme for Northern Ireland Water Ltd | March 07
 
Advice NI Response to Proposal for a Draft Water and Sewerage Services (NI) Order | 04/09/2006
Advice NI Response to the Proposal for a Draft Water and Sewerage Services (N.Ireland) Order 2006.
 
Advice NI AGM 05 Workshop Feedback Paper | 05/03/2006
This briefing paper highlights the main issues raised at Advice NI's AGM workshops. testing this upload
 
DSD Advice & Information Strategy | 27/02/2006
Advice NI Briefing Paper on the DSD Advice & Information Strategy
 
Domestic Water reform in Northern Ireland Oct 04 | 20/10/2004
“inadequate … indefensible … incomprehensible”
 
Rates Reform Oct 04 | 01/10/2004
Reform of the Domestic Rating System in Northern Ireland - Policy Paper
 
Financial Services and Markets Act Jul 04 | 02/07/2004
Advice NI welcomes clarification of the current legislative framework as it relates to the Financial Services and Markets Act.
 
SSA Benefit Take Up Strategy May 04 | 31/05/2004
Advice NI response to the Social Security Agency consultation document,‘Proposed Benefit Take-Up Strategy 2004 – 2005’
 
Centralised Maternity Hospital for Belfast Jan 03 | 19/05/2004
Although the consultation document is entitled “A New Centralised Maternity Hospital for Belfast” the issue of a centralised maternity unit has Northern Ireland wide implications.
 
Benefit Payment by Automated Credit Transfer/Direct Debit Oct 03 | 03/05/2004
From April 2003, the payment of social security benefits and pensions by Automated
Credit Transfer (ACT) into a bank account or some other kind of account will become
the Social Security Agency’s preferred method of payment.
 
New deal for Disabled People (NDDP) Apr 02 | 02/04/2004
New Deal is a key part of the Government's Welfare to Work strategy. It has been
created to help unemployed people into work by closing the gap between the skills
employers want and the skills people can offer.
 
Social Security Fraud Act (NI) 2001 Jan 2002 | 26/03/2004
Social Security Fraud Act (NI) 2001
 
Targeting Grant Aid in Private Sector Housing Oct 03 | 26/03/2004
In June 2003, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (the Housing Executive) published
a consultation document on targeting grant aid for private sector housing.
 
Northern Ireland Housing Executive Replacement Windows Oct 2001 | 10/03/2004
Northern Ireland Housing Executive Replacement Windows
 
Impact of Welfare Reform and Modernisation II Jun 2001 | 03/02/2004
Impact of Welfare Reform & Modernisation II
 
Impact of Welfare Reform and Modernisation I March 2001 | 05/01/2004
Impact of Welfare Reform & Modernisation I
 
National Insurance Principle Supplemental May 03 | 31/05/2003
Incapacity Benefit

Changes to forms and leaflets which have been shown to directly impact upon a claimant’s ability to qualify for benefit
 
National Insurance Principle May 03 | 15/05/2003
Increased National Insurance Contributions
The Contributory Principle:
‘On the Agenda’ or ‘In the Firing-line’?
 
Medical Assessments for Incapacity and Disability Benefits Jul 02 | 01/07/2002
AIAC Paper on Medical Assessments for Incapacity and Disability Benefits