Over the past few years successive governments have imposed stinging welfare cuts. This has left most vulnerable in our community unable to afford the most basic essentials. At the GMLC we actively campaign for reversing these cuts and fight on behalf of those affected by providing access to free face-to-face legal advice. On this page you can find all the latest news on our campaigning and services relating to welfare benefits.
GMLC’s Welfare Benefits Supervisor Dan Manville reacts to the April 2023 budget announced yesterday, looking at proposed welfare reforms and what it might mean for benefits claimants, including those who…
In December 2022, Greater Manchester Law Centre, in association with the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA), conducted a survey into recent delays in processing Pension Credit claims. Here,…
GMLC campaign volunteer Eleni Founta summarises the recent case of Timson, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022], in which a disabled woman…
On 30 November 2021, GMLC gave expert evidence on Long Covid, employment and welfare rights to the APPG on Coronavirus. Latest estimates suggest 1.5m people in the UK are living…
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) are currently taking legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to highlight the potential discrimination in their algorithm for detecting…
We are collecting information from our wider networks about their priorities for changing the benefits system. We are looking for people who have had recent experience of using the benefits…
Figures from the end of the year showed that GMLC won over £1 million for benefits clients in 2021. This was mostly through our support with appeals, where clients can…
Kate Bradley and Leyya Kitmitto outline the problems with the category ‘fraud and error’, and highlight four cases that disturb the usual narratives about benefit fraud. Recently, the Department for…
GMLC Director Jason Tetley writes on the urgent need to stop the Universal Credit cut next week. On Tuesday 6 October, the Universal Credit uplift ends, plunging an additional half…
This fact sheet was written by legal advisers at Greater Manchester Law Centre following a meeting with Care and Support Workers Organise (CASWO). It is intended to answer care workers’…