Rightsnet
Lasa's welfare rights website, rightsnet provides access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive welfare benefit and tax credit information on the web.
Who uses rightsnet?
Rightsnet has tens of thousands of visitors every month.
Users of rightsnet - the first second-tier website to be awarded the Legal Services Commission Quality Mark for websites - include:
- Citizens Advice Bureaux
- adviceUK and adviceNI agencies
- Law centres
- Local authority welfare rights units
- Social services and housing departments
- The Child Poverty Action Group
- Dial UK agencies
- The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers
- The Social Security Law Practitioners Association
- The Appeals Service
- The Social Security Advisory Committee
- The Work and Pensions Select Committee
- Rights Advice Scotland
- The Social Security & Child Support Commissioners
- Asylum and refugee agencies
- The BBC
- Parliamentary researchers
- Freelance consultants and trainers ... and more.
Why should I use rightsnet?
Access to rightsnet provides advisers with:
- News on the latest statutory instruments, DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) and Revenue guidance ... brought together and summarised within 24 hours of their issue
- User-friendly summaries of significant benefit and tax credit related caselaw - including fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest Tribunal decisions and Court of Appeal and House of Lords judgments
- Ten fully moderated adviser discussion forums, that attract more than 1/2 million contributions every year and
- Benefit rates information, factsheets and leaflets, benefit rate calculators, and the latest advice sector job vacancies
What our users say
"... people receive better benefits advice through services such as www.rightsnet.org.uk ..." The Cabinet Office (July 2008)
"Essential to the job, I can't imagine being without it" Rightsnet User
"As far as online services are concerned, there is little to beat rightsnet. This site contains a wealth of resources for people working in the welfare benefits field ..." Sweet & Maxwell, publishers of the Social Security Law Volumes.
Find out more
Subscribe to Rightsnet and stay up to date with the latest welfare benefits and tax credit information.