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'It's a lifeline': MPs urge government to help families in crisis and continue household support fund
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Household Support Fund

'It's a lifeline': MPs urge government to help families in crisis and continue household support fund

Household support fund's end would be 'devastating', charities say: 'We're planning for the worst'
jeremy hunt
Department for Work and Pensions

Household support fund's end would be 'devastating', charities say: 'We're planning for the worst'

Council tells disabled man with cerebral palsy to make himself homeless to get housing support
Housing crisis

Council tells disabled man with cerebral palsy to make himself homeless to get housing support

'An urgent wake-up call': Half of disabled people are struggling to pay their energy bills
disabled person struggling with energy bills
Cost of living crisis

'An urgent wake-up call': Half of disabled people are struggling to pay their energy bills

'I have nothing': DWP takes millions from benefit claimants every year to pay for its own mistakes
benefits claimants hit with overpayments
Benefits

'I have nothing': DWP takes millions from benefit claimants every year to pay for its own mistakes

21 million Brits are struggling to pay bills: 'People will go cold, hungry and lose their homes'
cost of living crisis
Cost of living crisis

21 million Brits are struggling to pay bills: 'People will go cold, hungry and lose their homes'

Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts
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Department for Work and Pensions

Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts

Outrage as Home Office tells 400 asylum seekers to leave hotel at week's notice
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Outrage as Home Office tells 400 asylum seekers to leave hotel at week's notice

DWP benefits and cost of living payment dates to expect in February 2024
benefits/ money
Benefits

DWP benefits and cost of living payment dates to expect in February 2024

UK poverty: The facts, effects and solutions in the cost of living crisis
uk poverty cost of living crisis
Poverty

UK poverty: The facts, effects and solutions in the cost of living crisis

It's 20 years and six prime ministers since UK last saw a sustained fall in poverty. Yes, really
Poverty

It's 20 years and six prime ministers since UK last saw a sustained fall in poverty. Yes, really

'I saw my arm melting': Acid attack survivor on hope, making change and new Rankin campaign
Acid attack survivor
Violence against women

'I saw my arm melting': Acid attack survivor on hope, making change and new Rankin campaign

Brits are £10,000 poorer now than in 2010, study finds: 'Everywhere has been levelled down'
poorer
Poverty

Brits are £10,000 poorer now than in 2010, study finds: 'Everywhere has been levelled down'

Landlords urged to give up spare rooms to host refugees made homeless by Home Office
a tent on the street
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Landlords urged to give up spare rooms to host refugees made homeless by Home Office

Mum fears telling DWP she's pregnant due to 'cruel' two-child benefit cap: 'Bills are just too much'
baby dwp
Benefits

Mum fears telling DWP she's pregnant due to 'cruel' two-child benefit cap: 'Bills are just too much'

Healthy life expectancy in Liverpool is just 58: Most deprived areas of UK need better healthcare
liverpool
Health

Healthy life expectancy in Liverpool is just 58: Most deprived areas of UK need better healthcare

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Women feel 'violated and traumatised' by painful hysteroscopies – and say the NHS misinformed them
Portrait of Katharyne Tylko, aged 68, of Bath, who is co-founder of the Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy
Special report

Women feel 'violated and traumatised' by painful hysteroscopies – and say the NHS misinformed them

Vulnerable sex-trafficking survivor evicted into below-zero temperatures by Home Office
Home Office, James Cleverly
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Vulnerable sex-trafficking survivor evicted into below-zero temperatures by Home Office

Home Office policy has led to a surge in refugee homelessness, academics say
Cardiff, homeless
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Home Office policy has led to a surge in refugee homelessness, academics say

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo warns cost of living crisis is denying kids the 'right to read'
Books

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo warns cost of living crisis is denying kids the 'right to read'

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