Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Lynsey Dalton, Adele Douse, Sabrina Dubash, Barbara Gray, Claire Hall, Alison Lord, David Malcolm, Paul Moorhouse, Kelly Smith and Katie Wood at Maternity Action for their invaluable contribution.
Our thanks are also due to Simon Osborne, the book’s content consultant.
We must acknowledge the efforts of the many authors of previous editions of the National Welfare Benefits Handbook, the Rights Guide to Non-Means-Tested Benefits and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Handbook, on which this book is based.
Thanks are also due to Nicola Johnston, Pauline Phillips and Bridget Giles for editing and managing the production of the book, and to Kathleen Armstrong and Anne Ketley for proofreading the text. Particular thanks must go to Katherine Dawson and Anne Ketley for producing the index and Bryce Payton for the typesetting.
The law covered in this book was correct on 1 March 2021 and includes regulations laid up to this date.