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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.
How mental health was dragged into the culture war
Rising levels of mental ill health are not the product of a cultural fad, driven by TikTok content that frames traits like talkativeness or difficulty finishing projects as evidence of ADHD, as the culture warriors would have us believe.