Deborah Padfield has been a Citizens Advice benefits adviser, trainer and supervisor in Cambridge, Peterborough and north Essex, where she still works. In the past she lived and worked in London's East End. She has considerable experience of mental illness and is on the steering committee of The Cambridge Commons.
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Published in: Shine A LightThrough the eyes of a benefits adviser: a plea for a basic incomeConstant fear, routine humiliation, no escape: this isn't prison, but life on incapacity benefit in the United...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUniversal credit: fair for whom?
New changes intended to simplify the UK's welfare benefit system could have negative consequences. While the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho’s responsible? Our final ‘Report from the Poverty Line’We conclude our series of 'Reports from the Poverty Line' with a call for a reassessment of who contributes to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiving with Fear: Part 4 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the fourth of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGet ’em off benefits? Part 3 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the third of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFraud’n’error: tax avoidance and evasion. Part 2 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line – a part of Britain...