Wendy Chamberlain MP: We need to expose the Tories’ Young Parent Penalty
Universal Credit is unfairly hitting young parents in the pocket.
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Labour MP: Don’t sanction benefit claimants quarantined over coronavirus
Universal Credit is notoriously unflexible.
Is this what ‘levelling up’ looks like? PM challenged over hike in Lords expenses
Peers will be getting more in a day than many Universal Credit claimants get in a month.
Next government must protect people from hunger, says Trussell Trust
The Trussel Trust believes the increase in use of food banks can be pinned on the failure of the switch to Universal Credit.
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
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.
Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading
The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.
Trussell urges for long-term government action, as food bank use almost 50% higher since 2019
The charity warns that too many people are being “overlooked and left behind,” with growing numbers struggling to afford basic essentials.