Advice NI Consultation Response: Cuts to the Discretionary Support Scheme Draft Equality Impact Assessment
Due to an inadequate budget allocation, creating a Departmental budget shortfall of £111.2m, the Department for Communities has, as part of a range of measures, scaled back funding for the Discretionary Support scheme which provides emergency grants and loans for people on a low income who are in an extreme, exceptional or crisis situation.
Advice NI Consultation Response: DfC Budget 2023-24 Equality Impact Assessment
Advice NI notes with deep concern that the Department of Communities is faced with unprecedented funding challenges and cuts in 2023-24
Advice NI Consultation Response: DfC Equality Action Plan
Advice NI calls on the Department to ensure that the work and impact of the independent advice network is explicitly included within the DfC Equality Action Plan (in addition to the reference to the ‘Fundamental Refresh’).
Advice NI response to the Work & Pensions Committee Inquiry
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.
Advice NI Response To: Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper
This consultation focuses on the main benefits paid to disabled people and people with long-term health conditions of working age.
Advice NI's response to the Department for Communities Equality Impact Assessment Consultation
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.
Advice NI response to the NI Executive Draft Budget Consultation
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.
Advice NI response to the Programme for Government
Red our response to the Programme for Government across 9 key areas.
Advice NI Response to Dept. for Economy Energy Strategy Consultation
The Advice NI policy team responded to the Department for the Economy’s consultation on their Energy Strategy.