Osborne won’t rule out cutting child benefit to meet Tory spending target
The IFS say that incorporating child benefit into universal credit could cost 4.3 million families £1,000 a year
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Could you go five weeks without money? Under a new DWP plan you might have to
Further punitive restrictions on Universal Credit are on the way.
This is a watershed moment for the future of free school meals
Universal Credit will trap over 100,000 familes on a ‘benefit cliff-edge’: it’s time to extend eligibility for free school meals to all children in poverty.
Simplification, sanctions and cuts won’t create jobs
Over the last few days the coalition has been keen to sell Universal Credit as the answer to all the labour market’s problems. After the deepest recession in decades, they are confident they can reduce worklessness by 300,000 jobs (a ‘conservative’ estimate), reduce child and working age poverty, reduce working-age welfare expenditure by £18 billion and make everyone in work better off, simply by reforming the welfare system.
Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’
A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government’s honeymoon has been short lived.
Home Office move-on period: Refugees and charities ‘relieved’, but extension must be permanent
Refugees faced move-on periods that were too short to do basic things like open a bank account and find housing. Will the new 56-day move-on period help?
‘Starmer must avoid Biden’s strategic mistake’: Reactions to Keir Starmer’s ‘Plan for Change’
‘Unless economic growth delivers material benefits for more of us, Starmer risks suffering the same fate as US President Biden.’
100,000 more children set to be in poverty within five years, new analysis shows
Currently, 4.3 million children in the UK live in poverty, with 1 million experiencing destitution.
Healthcare crisis for women in the North East raised in parliament
Girls aged four to six in the North East can expect to live in good health for only 59.7 years, the lowest healthy life expectancy in England, and six years less than those in the South East.