There’s an easy way to help with energy bills, but the government won’t use it
Ministers are resorting to the nonsensical council tax system because they are ideologically allergic to raising Universal Credit.
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How the end of the eviction ban has pushed thousands into homelessness
Between July and September 2021, 36,510 households became homeless following the end of the eviction ban in May.
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“It polled off the charts”: the benefit cap is for popularity not saving money, claims former Tory welfare minister
Why ministers are still refusing to review the “intolerable” and “arbitrary” austerity-era welfare policy.
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UK sick pay remains among the lowest in Europe
British employees are entitled to just £96.35 a week in sick pay, one of the least generous rates in the…
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Who will benefit from Rishi Sunak’s Universal Credit taper rate cut in the Budget?
More than 60 per cent of Universal Credit claimants will not benefit from the change and will feel the full…
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Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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How London renters are squeezed
Londoners spend nearly 40 per cent of their income on private rent.
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The Universal Credit reduction is the biggest overnight benefit cut in history
The £1,040-a-year benefit cut is the biggest since the creation of the British welfare state.
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