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Tory cuts will leave millions of families ‘permanently worse off’, says think tank

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Fifteen-year income squeeze could leave families £1,200 a year worse off by 2025.
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Carers

Government ‘neglect’ pushing unpaid carers into poverty, exhaustion and total despair

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'Exhausted' unpaid family carers demand better support from the social care system.
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Scotland becomes first country in the world to guarantee free period products for anyone who needs them

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MSPs support bill to 'make period poverty history'.

Tories reject petition signed by 120,000 people demanding fairer disability benefits

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Petition calls for the £20 a week uplift to Universal Credit to be extended to legacy benefits.

DWP must allow disabled students to claim Universal Credit, court rules

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Disabled student wins right to be considered for Universal Credit.

Poor hit by fallout of Covid driven into extreme hardship – but the rich get richer

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Fears grow around the widening of social inequalities in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

DWP apologises after publishing personal details of more than 6,000 disability claimants

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DWP data breach is being investigated the Information Commissioner.

Cross-party leaders join forces in call to halt Universal Credit cuts

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Cross-party leaders call for the £20 a week up-lift to Universal Credit to be made permanent and extended to legacy benefits.

Call to end Universal Credit wait after huge surge in household debt and foodbank use

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Tories urged to scrap the five week wait for Universal Credit and strengthen welfare protections.

Food banks report huge surge in demand for food parcels amid Covid pandemic

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Trussell Trust reports that it has already helped more than a million people affected by the Covid pandemic.

Family of disabled woman who took own life after benefits stopped given permission for second inquest

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DWP made multiple errors in how it treated Jodey Whiting.

Government must do more to help young people hit by unemployment, say experts

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Latest ONS figures show a huge increase in the number of unemployed young people.

Scrap benefit sanctions for the mentally ill, report says

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Report finds that benefits conditionality is counter-productive and causes emmense distress for the mentally ill.

Second Tory U-turn on free school meals welcomed by Rashford but over a million kids will still go hungry

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Tories forced into yet another humiliating U-turn on free school meals after heroic campaign by Marcus Rashford.

Rishi Sunak’s next U-turn must be to make the £20 Universal Credit uplift permanent, says SNP

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SNP also say the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit should be extended to all legacy benefits.

Labour calls for new ban on evictions and repossessions ahead of Covid lockdown

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Shadow Housing Secretary says "it is essential that renters and homeowners have re-assurance that they will be safe in their homes."

Suspension of Universal Credit ‘minimum income floor’ extended for six months

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Support for the self-employed to continue for a further six months.

Coronavirus: UK facing a ‘perfect storm of awfulness’ if welfare support isn’t improved

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Boris Johnson's own former homelessness adviser warns of an impending winter crisis.

Coronavirus: Tories warned not to cut Universal Credit support for the self-employed

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Reintroduction of the ‘Minimum Income Floor’ could see the self-employed losing thousands of pounds each year.

UK facing a ‘jobs crisis for disabled people’, charity warns

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Employers are reluctant to hire disabled people during the Covid pandemic.

Anger after Tory MP claims ‘food parcels are sold or traded for drugs’

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Another Tory MP claimed school meal vouchers were "effectively" a cash payment to brothels and drug dealers.

REVEALED: Tories’ secret plot to spy on benefit claimant’s bank accounts

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Move likened to the encroachment to the "big brother state".

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