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What is the two-child benefit limit and how does it impact families?
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Benefits

What is the two-child benefit limit and how does it impact families?

Benefit cap and unaffordable rents leave tens of thousands of families at risk of destitution
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Benefits

Benefit cap and unaffordable rents leave tens of thousands of families at risk of destitution

This is the harsh reality of the two-child benefit cap for families: 'It's like wearing a scarlet letter'
thea who is impacted by the two child limit on benefits
Two-child benefit cap

This is the harsh reality of the two-child benefit cap for families: 'It's like wearing a scarlet letter'

'You're basically abandoned': How care leavers are forced from foster homes as soon as they turn 18
Care leavers

'You're basically abandoned': How care leavers are forced from foster homes as soon as they turn 18

Rachel Reeves warns of 'difficult decisions' on benefits and welfare spending
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Benefits

Rachel Reeves warns of 'difficult decisions' on benefits and welfare spending

Winter fuel payments restricted to pensioners on certain benefits
rachel reeves
Benefits

Winter fuel payments restricted to pensioners on certain benefits

'It doesn't have to be this way': More than 200,000 kids needed help from baby banks last year
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Baby banks

'It doesn't have to be this way': More than 200,000 kids needed help from baby banks last year

I took out loans and maxed out credit cards to fund my gambling addiction. I ended up homeless
Gambling

I took out loans and maxed out credit cards to fund my gambling addiction. I ended up homeless

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison
The silhouette of a women standing in front of prison bars
Prisons

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison

DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'
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BENEFITS

DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'

'Shameful stuff': Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap
keir starmer
Two-child benefit cap

'Shameful stuff': Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further
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Bibby Stockholm

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms
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Department for Work and Pensions

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments
A sign advertising the use of public toilets for £3
Public toilets

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments

Labour 'considering' scrapping two-child benefit cap
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Child poverty

Labour 'considering' scrapping two-child benefit cap

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks 'criminalising' poverty: 'Some are out of options'
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Shoplifting

Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks 'criminalising' poverty: 'Some are out of options'

Premier League clubs step up gambling sponsorship on front of shirts ahead of ban: 'It's shameful'
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Exclusive

Premier League clubs step up gambling sponsorship on front of shirts ahead of ban: 'It's shameful'

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: 'Stressed out to the max'
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Childcare

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: 'Stressed out to the max'

I was in a violent relationship. I wouldn't have got free without financial help
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Financial inclusion

I was in a violent relationship. I wouldn't have got free without financial help