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Nearly half of brain injury survivors claim benefits – without enough support to get back to work
brain injuries
Employment

Nearly half of brain injury survivors claim benefits – without enough support to get back to work

Disability and work: Why the next government must show compassion and reform the benefits system
disability benefits protest
Disability benefits

Disability and work: Why the next government must show compassion and reform the benefits system

Rory Stewart: 'The Conservative Party is being punished for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss'
Politics

Rory Stewart: 'The Conservative Party is being punished for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss'

Being pregnant during cost of living crisis made me depressed. Baby banks helped take the shame away
Mum and baby reading a book
Baby banks

Being pregnant during cost of living crisis made me depressed. Baby banks helped take the shame away

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know
universal credit/ money
Universal credit

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know

DWP plans to spy on benefit claimants' bank accounts must 'never be resurrected'
Person using an ATM
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP plans to spy on benefit claimants' bank accounts must 'never be resurrected'

Everything you need to know about Tories' watered-down leasehold reforms
Michael Gove, leasehold reform
Housing

Everything you need to know about Tories' watered-down leasehold reforms

One in four English councils under 'shocking strain' due to temporary accommodation costs
View of houses and city skyline to illustrate story on temporary accommodation
Housing

One in four English councils under 'shocking strain' due to temporary accommodation costs

Labour unveils 'ambitious' plan to help people buy their first home. But is it enough?
Keir Starmer announces Freedom to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme
General election 2024

Labour unveils 'ambitious' plan to help people buy their first home. But is it enough?

'Shocking': Nearly 3,000 homeless people arrested under 200-year-old Vagrancy Act since 2021
Vagrancy Act continues to punish rough sleepers
Rough sleeping

'Shocking': Nearly 3,000 homeless people arrested under 200-year-old Vagrancy Act since 2021

'I'm sad, angry and confused': These renters are being made homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

'I'm sad, angry and confused': These renters are being made homeless to house people already homeless

Is the homeownership dream over for young people? Here's how old the average first-time buyer really is
how old is the average first-time buyer
Homeownership

Is the homeownership dream over for young people? Here's how old the average first-time buyer really is

General election 2024: Over 100 seats have been held by the same party for a century, study finds
Campaigners at an electoral reform protest. One man is holding a sign reading: Our voting system fails to give us representation in government
General election 2024

General election 2024: Over 100 seats have been held by the same party for a century, study finds

'Annoyed but not surprised': Outrage as benefits, welfare and DWP all but absent from election debate
Wallet containing £20 notes and a Monzo card
General election 2024

'Annoyed but not surprised': Outrage as benefits, welfare and DWP all but absent from election debate

'We need better politics than this': Sunak and Starmer's election debate leaves voters unimpressed
Screenshot of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during the ITV News debate on Thursday 4 June
General election 2024

'We need better politics than this': Sunak and Starmer's election debate leaves voters unimpressed

Will Labour raise taxes? Sunak accused of lying over Starmer's '£2,000 tax hike'
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak during the first TV debate of the 2024 general election campaign
General Election 2024

Will Labour raise taxes? Sunak accused of lying over Starmer's '£2,000 tax hike'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Most Brits think politicians use refugees to stoke 'culture wars', study finds
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak stand side by side during the first election debate on ITV
General election 2024

Most Brits think politicians use refugees to stoke 'culture wars', study finds

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials
universal credit essentials guarantee/ supermarket
Universal credit

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials

Child benefit: Parents left 'hungry' as HMRC glitch means half a million haven't received payments
childcare
Child benefits

Child benefit: Parents left 'hungry' as HMRC glitch means half a million haven't received payments

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have not solved rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping

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