The charity is urging MLAs to support struggling families by backing the 'Holiday Hunger Bill'.
Northern Ireland has the second highest rates of low pay in UK.
Advice NI has today called on the Northern Ireland Executive to urgently strengthen its draft Anti-Poverty Strategy, warning that without clear, measurable and properly funded actions, the strategy risks making little or no difference to people already struggling.
To mark Playday 2025 (6 August), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is encouraging working families to save money by signing up to Tax-Free Childcare and using one of the thousands of facilities accepting it as payment.
Data from Advice NI and Trussell reveal a growing food poverty crisis hitting even full-time workers. 7,525 households have been forced to turn to a food bank for the first time this year.
Advice NI has strongly condemned proposals in the UK Government’s 'Pathways to Work' Green Paper, warning that planned disability benefit cuts will hit Northern Ireland hardest and risk deepening poverty and mental ill-health.
43 per cent of children have different childcare needs during school holidays with average monthly cost upwards of £350. Charity welcomes subsidy scheme extension, but says working parents need more support.
Advice NI highlights potential local impact of recent Government proposals affecting sick and disabled people & calls on the NI Executive to ‘keep an open mind’ on what could be done to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable.
NI’s debt landscape is made up of housing debts, utilities debt and high-interest lending. Advice NI urges people to seek advice early to free their financial future.
Government does not ‘come back for more’ from social security benefit claimants, the truth is that there is no more to take
Following cuts estimated to amount to £5billion announced last week in the ‘Pathways to Work’ Green paper, it was rumoured that the Chancellor in the Spring Statement today would heap further misery on vulnerable, low-income families and people with disabilities reliant on social security.
