Change the benefits rule

Does the benefits system stop your organisation from paying people to do bits of work in your community? Are you on benefits and had your claim thrown into chaos for months when you declared part time, or sessional community work?

A new campaign has been launched by the CREATE Consortium, to establish the Community Allowance in the UK benefits system. This would enable community organisations to pay people to do work that strengthens their community without it affecting any of their benefits. 

Watch our 5 minute film, Benefits Rule, about how benefits regulations stop people from getting paid work in their community on our new website http://www.communityallowance.org/

If you feel the situation needs changing, please take a couple of minutes to email your MP. CREATE is in discussions with Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Work about running Community Allowance pilots across the country - help make it happen by letting your MP know what you think.