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Talk to your student money or welfare adviser - they are the good guys."

The Union runs the Support Centre which has 2 full-time welfare advisers.

We're being backed into a corner, with support such as CAB, welfare advisers etc being cut.

Marsh was welfare adviser to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from 1944-46.

Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey has promised changes to the agency, including the appointment of a special child welfare adviser.

Gail Wilensky, the chief White House welfare adviser, acknowledges that the changes are likely to bring large reductions in welfare rolls.

Bruce Reed, a White House welfare adviser, said the Administration remained opposed to proposals like Mr. Talent's that would abolish benefits.

Mr T F Connolly, the former Chief Welfare Officer, has retired from the post of Welfare Adviser.

"All we are asking is that individuals participate in our workfare program in exchange for public benefits," said Mr. Coles, the Mr. Giuliani's welfare adviser.

"Student loans are not designed to cover a wild social life - you need to budget for that," says Mo Onyett, student welfare adviser at the University of York.

"The people who come to us, though highly motivated, have enormous needs," said Ilene Margolin, the service's associate executive vice president for operations and a former welfare adviser to Governor Cuomo.

While Mr. Clinton's welfare advisers sent him a confidential memorandum in March referring to "what we hope will be a small number," outside economists have said hundreds of thousands of families may eventually be affected.

Prof. Ali is currently serving as the Health and Family Welfare and Social Welfare adviser to the Bangladeshi prime minister with the full rank and status of a senior cabinet minister.

Ashok Chaterjee, who was Social & Welfare Adviser in Martin Burn was the person responsible for the acquisition of land for the growth and expansion of the plant and township.

"New York has been moving up steadily," said Karen Schimke, executive director of the State Communities Aid Association, who was a welfare adviser for Mr. Pataki's predecessor, Mario M. Cuomo.

Syed Modasser Ali , is an ophthalmic surgeon from Bangladesh and the Health and Family Welfare and Social Welfare adviser to the current Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

In his capacity as the health and family welfare adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh he is overseeing changes in existing laws to fully comply with the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

TURNING TABLES ON CITY WELFARE ADVISER Most of the questions were taken directly from the pages of a new city handbook for welfare inspectors.

Anthony P. Coles, the senior welfare adviser to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, said that without the threat of eliminating benefits entirely, the city - and the state - will be unable to comply with the 1996 Federal welfare law, which requires that states put most aid recipients to work.

The issue, long a source of simmering tension between Texas officials and the White House, became more contentious earlier this month after Governor Bush's top welfare adviser, the Health and Human Services Commissioner, attended a meeting with Federal officials that was to have resolved the matter but instead left the proposal in limbo.

Welfare rights advisers often use a case management system to help them manage their work.

Welfare rights advisers will generally:

First, the Secretary of State clearly blames welfare rights advisers for manipulating the regulations and for making speculative claims.

Letters: As a welfare rights adviser I have seen many severely ill people who had been deemed 'fit for work'

I am on the highest rate of disability living allowance, thanks in no small part to my welfare rights adviser, who is fearful of his own job security.

He was employed as the Principal Welfare Rights Adviser for Harlow Council from 1978 to 1987.

Some local authorities and voluntary sector organisations, such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, employ paid or vounteer welfare rights advisers.

You may have signed off the Job Seekers Allowance, but your Welfare Rights adviser may very well be about to sign on in your place.

But Beth Lakhani, welfare rights adviser with the Child Poverty Action Group, claimed second families face real hardship if their income rises.

Representation was most frequently by a friend or relative, or by a social worker, though there was a large unhelpful category labelled 'other', which might well include welfare rights advisers.

Before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Bradford North in a by-election in November 1990, Terry was a welfare rights adviser at the Bierley Community Centre.

Welfare rights advisers generally offer expert lay legal advice in dealings with public departments, such as local authority Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit services, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Welfare rights advisers' professional organisation is the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) at a UK level; Scotland has its own professional association, Rights Advice Scotland (RAS).