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Does work pay to come off benefits?
Some working people are losing 97p of every £1 earned after being hit by a combination of welfare cuts, a committee of MPs has…
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Free school lunches for infants
The Government has announced further details of how it will help make free lunches a reality for all infant schoolchildren from September. According to…
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New Child Poverty Consultation
Consultation on a new Child Poverty has opened by the department of education Consultation closes on 22nd May – why don’t you join in…
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Food banks
Councils have plunged nearly £3 million into tackling food poverty, an investigation has discovered. According to CIH (and BBC Panorama): A third of all…
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Part time workers may get sanctioned under universal credit
Part-time workers judged to be doing too little to find full-time work face having their benefit for housing costs sanctioned by the government for…
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£3m spent by LAs on tacking food poverty
Councils have plunged nearly £3 million into tackling food poverty, an investigation has discovered. Inside Housing has reported: A third of all councils in…
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Councisl urge the retention of a crisis find for emergency welfare
Scrapping of a £347m emergency welfare fund could leave regions unable to support families in crisis, council leaders have warned. According to LG news:…
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Government respond to UN on welfare and housing
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins has responded to the United Nations Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik report on UK housing, according to Housemark Kris Hopkins said he was “disappointed that…
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JRF report on poor standard of living for households
New research commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), as part of its programme on the ‘minimum income standard‘, shows the number of UK households living…
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Universal Pathfinder statistics
The Department for Work and Pensions has published its second set of experimental Universal Credit pathfinder statistics. The figures, covering the period from April 2013…
