Anti-poverty charity urges politicians to set out plan to tackle ongoing hardship for low-income households
‘We need our politicians to set out how they will bring an end to this relentless reality of hardship in the general election campaign.’
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Here is how the next UK Government can end the need for food banks
‘We urge all political parties to embrace these priorities and commit to a future where everyone has the security for the essentials’
DWP under investigation by equalities regulator over treatment of disabled people
EHRC ‘extremely worried’ about the treatment of disabled benefits claimants by the government department
Voters support calls for two-child benefit limit to be scrapped
It comes amid calls from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to scrap the two-child benefit limit
Food bank charity launches General Election Manifesto, setting out actions for the next government to eliminate poverty
‘It is not right that anyone should need to use a food bank because they can’t afford to eat and pay bills. However, food bank need is at an historic high.’
DWP to hire ‘external agents’ in crackdown on benefit fraud that government’s own data shows doesn’t exist
‘If the government is concerned about fraud, it would be serious about the £15.2bn that multinational companies hide from the UK via tax havens.’
Corporate profiteering is the main source of inflation and people’s never-ending cost-of-living crisis. Here’s why
Corporate profits soar to 30% higher than pre-pandemic levels
Gordon Brown reiterates call for two-child benefit limit to be scrapped
Brown made the call to scrap the two-child benefit cap during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, where he also said that the policy was misunderstood.
Rishi Sunak accused of ‘trying to rewrite history’ in national security speech
‘No amount of spin or rewriting history can hide the Conservative’s abysmal record in office’
24 MPs sign motion calling to reconsider two-child benefits limit
The motion expresses ‘incredulity’ that the government hasn’t assessed correlations between the two-child limit and child poverty levels