Cliff Edge Coalition updated briefing

Housing Rights is one of over 100 members of the Cliff Edge NI Coalition, who have come together to highlight their shared concerns about the potential ‘cliff edge’ of the end of the welfare reform mitigations in March 2020, and their fears about a range of new welfare challenges which have emerged since the original mitigations were introduced.

The Coalition’s briefing paper outlines our key messages:

• The Cliff Edge Coalition is urgently calling for welfare reform mitigations to be extended beyond March 2020 and strengthened to take account of new challenges people are facing, particularly Universal Credit (UC).
• The extension and strengthening of the mitigations package urgently requires legislation to be passed by Westminster, or by the NI Assembly should it be restored.

In just 117 days the welfare reform mitigations are due to end. Time is running out.

Read the Cliff Edge Coalition’s briefing paper for more information on why it is so crucial that legislation is passed to ensure these vital protections are continued and strengthened.