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28 Jan 2022
Surrey Welfare Rights Unit
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20th July 2023 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
People with lived experience and carers
For people with lived experience and carers we have now published advice on receiving payment for involvement and its impact on welfare benefits. This advice can be found here. For Surrey residents involved in co-design or co-production activities, it also includes details of how you can contact us.
11th November 2022 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Our updated (2022) Carers Booklet is now available
The 25th (2022) edition of our “Benefits for Carers” booklet is now available in pdf format. It can be download here.
26th July 2022 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Download our Impact Report 2021/22
Welfare Rights. We were hoping for a more settled year compared to 2020/21 but that didn’t happen. We coped with switching back and forth from office and home, but it was the pace of legislative change that kept us working flat out to ensure all our stakeholders were up to date, and aware of changes […]
30th November 2021 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Download our Impact Report 2020/21
Welfare Rights during a pandemic From the very start of the year we had to hit the ground running, keeping up with a relentless stream of statutory, and non-statutory changes to social security rules. We introduced a new section on our website where we posted articles that were specific to what residents were experiencing: Are […]
20th October 2020 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Download our Impact Report 2019/20
Why Welfare Rights Provide Justice. The year did not end as expected. Throughout most of 2019/20 we were grappling with rising Universal Credit enquiries, and in particular, the emergence of specific issues relating to earnings, reclaims, accessing work capability assessments and partners who had no recourse to public funds. The queries were far more complex, […]
10th June 2020 by Ray Savage in Local News
Updates to our COVID-19 information including redundancy
We have updated several factsheets on our COVID-19 page as well as adding new section to help if you are made redundant. .
24th March 2020 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Welfare Benefit Support for self-employed workers during COVID-19 emergency
We have produced a factsheet on welfare benefit support for self employed workers which can be found here
18th March 2020 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
IMPORTANT: Change in how we are taking enquiries during current COVID-19 period
From 18 March we are operating the service remotely following advice issued by the Department of Health. We will still be taking enquiries, Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm. Organisations who subscribe can either email their enquiry or request a call back from a SWRU adviser. The address for both options is advice@swru.org We will be […]
11th February 2020 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
Benefits for Carers booklet updated
The 23rd (2020) edition of our “Benefits for Carers” booklet is now available in pdf format. It can be download here.
20th August 2019 by Ray Savage in Home Content 2, Local News
“Quick Benefits – Building on existing skills” course for Surrey LCAs in November
This half day hands-on workshop is for advisers who already have experience in using the Quick Benefits calculator. It will build on the skills of the advisers to increase their knowledge of the software by working through more complex benefit entitlement calculations. Further details can be found here
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