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Virtual healthcare is discriminatory and breaches Equality Act, say charities
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Virtual healthcare is discriminatory and breaches Equality Act, say charities

‘Do it for the children’: Families plead with Sunak to reverse universal credit cut
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‘Do it for the children’: Families plead with Sunak to reverse universal credit cut

‘They took away my future’: Teenager forced to quit college after universal credit cut
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‘They took away my future’: Teenager forced to quit college after universal credit cut

Health inequalities: How does your area of England compare to others?
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Health inequalities: How does your area of England compare to others?

'What kidnappers do' - DWP forcing universal credit claimants to pose for photo with daily paper
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'What kidnappers do' - DWP forcing universal credit claimants to pose for photo with daily paper

Children in poverty 70% more likely to develop asthma for life
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Children in poverty 70% more likely to develop asthma for life

Women and LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan are still waiting for the UK refugees scheme to open
Priti Patel said the scheme would accept 20,000 people from Afghanistan.
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Women and LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan are still waiting for the UK refugees scheme to open

Make breakfast clubs a priority in child poverty fight, government told
Rachel de Souza talking about child poverty
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Make breakfast clubs a priority in child poverty fight, government told

Up to 1.5 million fuel poor households don't qualify for the warm home discount
Up to 1.5m fuel poor households don't qualify for the warm home discount. Image: Nenad Stojkovic / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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Up to 1.5 million fuel poor households don't qualify for the warm home discount

Universal credit: What is it and why does the £20 cut matter?
Three pound coins sit in a pile on top of a £5 note. The Big Issue explains Universal Credit
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Universal credit: What is it and why does the £20 cut matter?

The problems with BT's £50m 888 app to protect women on their way home
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The problems with BT's £50m 888 app to protect women on their way home

'My parents tried to pray for me': How prejudice is driving LGBTQ+ homelessness
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'My parents tried to pray for me': How prejudice is driving LGBTQ+ homelessness

How much you would get in universal credit if you lost your job today
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How much you would get in universal credit if you lost your job today

Food banks are already running out of food and say it's going to get worse
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Food banks are already running out of food and say it's going to get worse

Millions facing 'daily battle' as government cuts universal credit
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Millions facing 'daily battle' as government cuts universal credit

Universal credit cut: Senior NHS nurse says she goes to work worrying about bailiffs
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Universal credit cut: Senior NHS nurse says she goes to work worrying about bailiffs

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Rishi Sunak says Brits should be ‘grateful’ for austerity as he all but confirms universal credit cut
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Rishi Sunak says Brits should be ‘grateful’ for austerity as he all but confirms universal credit cut

Families on universal credit going hungry even before £20-per-week cut
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Families on universal credit going hungry even before £20-per-week cut

Boris Johnson talked about ‘levelling up’ two years ago. Here's how that's going
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Boris Johnson talked about ‘levelling up’ two years ago. Here's how that's going

Revealed: The worst areas for fuel poverty in England as energy price cap hiked
‘It will push me over the edge’: the End Fuel Poverty Coalition warns a further 1.2 million people could be pushed into poverty by Friday's energy price cap hike. Photo: End Fuel Poverty Coalition
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Revealed: The worst areas for fuel poverty in England as energy price cap hiked