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DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and...
The government should target criminal gangs and wealthy tax fraudsters instead of criminalising carers who were mistakenly overpaid their benefits, campaigners have said. An organised gang has been...
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‘Helpless’ UK residents call for Home Office to help get families out of...
Ahmed knew he had to get his family out of Palestine when his six-year-old nephew saw his father killed in a zone flagged as safe by the Israeli military. He has 15 family members trapped in Gaza....
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I used to dream of being a doctor in the UK. Now I’m searching for ways to...
As campaigners call on the UK government to do more to support Palestinians affected by war, Mohammed shares his family’s story of fleeing Gaza and why it is so vital the UK government steps up....
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I lost 200 members of my family to war in Gaza. I feel betrayed by the UK...
As campaigners call on the government to implement a Ukraine-style family visa scheme for Palestinians affected by war, Rami shares his family’s story and why it is so vital the UK government steps up...
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My family faced hell on earth in Gaza. Leaving was their only option for...
As campaigners call on the government to implement a Ukraine-style family visa scheme for Palestinians affected by war, Roba shares her family’s story and why it is so vital the UK government steps up...
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My cousin was killed in front of his six-year-old son. I need to get my...
As campaigners call on the government to implement a Ukraine-style family visa scheme for Palestinians affected by war, Ahmed shares his family’s story and why it is so vital the UK government steps...
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Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over
Cost of living payments have come to an end and the government has no plans to continue the scheme. Millions of low-income households received the final cost of living payment from the Department for...
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Amy’s Place: How a ‘beautiful’ housing project giving hope became Amy...
Katya avoids thinking too much about Amy Winehouse. It takes her to a dark place. She is 27, the same age as Amy when she died of alcohol poisoning after a long and public battle with addiction....
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Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts...
Millions of families on universal credit are £1,400 poorer on average in real terms now than they were on the legacy benefits system a decade ago, new research has found. The Resolution Foundation has...
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Thousands could be owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP payments. Here’s...
Thousands of people could be owed backdated personal independence payments (PIP) from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In July 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that more people with...
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Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening ‘harsh’ disability benefits...
As record numbers of people are out of work due to long-term sickness, experts are calling on the government to strengthen social security and healthcare services. Instead, ministers plan to tighten...
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Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Inflation fell to 3.2% in the year to March 2024, down from 3.4% the month before. That’s the lowest level in two and a half years. Does this mean the cost of living crisis is over? And will prices...
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DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank...
Government plans for bank account surveillance are likely to breach privacy law and could amount to “unlawful discrimination”, legal experts have warned. The Data Protection and Digital Information...
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Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of...
A total of £22.7bn in benefits and financial support is expected to go unclaimed in the UK this year, according to new estimates. Policy in Practice has revealed that 8.4 million people could be...
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My daughter has been trapped in hospital for years with a learning disability...
Rose has been trapped in a mental health hospital for a decade because she has a learning disability. At 35, she has lived much of her adult life locked away from society. There is nowhere else for...
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‘It’s a choice between dinner and devices’: Millions of children held back by...
Millions of children in the UK are being held back because of digital inequality, new research has found. Figures from the Digital Poverty Alliance and Deloitte, shared exclusively with the Big Issue,...
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Sunak’s call to end ‘sick note culture’ and reform benefits is ‘demonising’...
Rishi Sunak’s plans to tackle the UK’s so-called ‘sick note culture’ with a series of welfare reforms have been slammed as ‘cruel’ and part of an ‘ongoing onslaught’ on the vulnerable. With a record...
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DWP risks repeat of Post Office scandal with plan to snoop on claimants’ bank...
The government risks replicating the “tragic events of the Horizon scandal” with its plans to combat fraud with bank account surveillance, MPs and peers have warned. The Data Protection and Digital...
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‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with...
Pauline spent years worrying that her disability benefits would be seized. Then it happened. She had schizophrenia, diabetes, osteoporosis, a hiatus hernia and a permanently-damaged shoulder, but she...
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Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: ‘Disabled...
A disability activist has been granted permission to take the government to court over its controversial plans to tighten a key disability benefit test. Following an eight-week public consultation...
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