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Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a 'failure' due to benefits not covering essentials
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Cost of living crisis

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a 'failure' due to benefits not covering essentials

Millions of Brits considering suicide due to cost of living crisis, report finds
Many universal credit claimants are struggling to cope. Image: Pexels
Cost of living crisis

Millions of Brits considering suicide due to cost of living crisis, report finds

Young woman says she 'unravelled' when cost of living meant she couldn't keep herself clean
Tryphine/ Hygiene poverty
Cost of living crisis

Young woman says she 'unravelled' when cost of living meant she couldn't keep herself clean

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London's most disadvantaged women
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Barriers to work

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London's most disadvantaged women

Where to find free toiletries, period products and nappies in the UK
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Cost of living crisis

Where to find free toiletries, period products and nappies in the UK

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis
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Child poverty

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis

One million UK children experienced 'horrifying levels of destitution' last year, study finds
teddy destitution
Child poverty

One million UK children experienced 'horrifying levels of destitution' last year, study finds

Football fans are fed up of racism, sexism and homophobia. Here's how to kick it out for good
Football

Football fans are fed up of racism, sexism and homophobia. Here's how to kick it out for good

Adoptees share the 'extreme emotional challenge' of meeting birth parents decades after adoption
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Adoption

Adoptees share the 'extreme emotional challenge' of meeting birth parents decades after adoption

Disabled people 'risk losing right to take part in society' with social care 'on its knees'
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Social care

Disabled people 'risk losing right to take part in society' with social care 'on its knees'

I have a fear of walking. DWP put me through hell waiting for a disability benefits tribunal
Sarah Smithers
Disability benefits

I have a fear of walking. DWP put me through hell waiting for a disability benefits tribunal

Asylum seekers returning to Bibby Stockholm barge is 'health catastrophe waiting to happen'
An aerial view of the Bibby Stockholm migrant asylum docked in its final position at Portland Port in Dorset.
Bibby Stockholm

Asylum seekers returning to Bibby Stockholm barge is 'health catastrophe waiting to happen'

Sign up to Survival Guide: The Big Issue newsletter exploring human stories at the heart of the cost of living crisis
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Cost of living crisis

Sign up to Survival Guide: The Big Issue newsletter exploring human stories at the heart of the cost of living crisis

Rapper and TV chef Big Zuu: 'The more people give back, the better the world we’ll see'
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Food poverty

Rapper and TV chef Big Zuu: 'The more people give back, the better the world we’ll see'

Young woman estranged from family recalls fight for survival amid cost of living crisis: 'I was scared'
Molly Taylor
Cost of living crisis

Young woman estranged from family recalls fight for survival amid cost of living crisis: 'I was scared'

Almost half a million kids could fall into poverty if benefits don't rise with inflation, experts warn
Child
Benefits

Almost half a million kids could fall into poverty if benefits don't rise with inflation, experts warn

Food banks brace for 'worst winter yet' as record numbers need help amid cost of living crisis
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Food banks

Food banks brace for 'worst winter yet' as record numbers need help amid cost of living crisis

Disabled people twice as likely to face debt amid cost of living crisis: 'The system is broken'
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Cost of living crisis

Disabled people twice as likely to face debt amid cost of living crisis: 'The system is broken'

Amputee pensioner refused higher rate of disability benefit by DWP: 'I couldn't understand it'
Ian Meldrum
Disability benefits

Amputee pensioner refused higher rate of disability benefit by DWP: 'I couldn't understand it'

'I had to do something': Ex-prisoner explains how love for his kids helped him turn his life around
Justice system

'I had to do something': Ex-prisoner explains how love for his kids helped him turn his life around