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DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
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Benefits

DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

Here is everything you need to know about when you’ll get your benefits this month – including what the Labour government’s reforms might mean for you
TikTok entrepreneur Simon Squibb: ‘Money won’t make you happy – but it gives you choices’
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TikTok entrepreneur Simon Squibb: ‘Money won’t make you happy – but it gives you choices’

Financial inequality: Understanding the gender gap in money matters – and how to close it
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Gender pay gap

Financial inequality: Understanding the gender gap in money matters – and how to close it

Top Stories

Kinship carers need financial support. Instead, we’re just left to get on with it
Kinship care

Kinship carers need financial support. Instead, we’re just left to get on with it

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit
Disability benefits

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Energy bills

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Crisis-proofing your finances: How to prepare for the unexpected with an emergency fund
Emergency fund

Crisis-proofing your finances: How to prepare for the unexpected with an emergency fund

How can I make money? Quick and easy ways to make extra cash online and offline
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Cost of living crisis

How can I make money? Quick and easy ways to make extra cash online and offline

13 DIY tips to keep your energy bills low this winter
Energy bills

13 DIY tips to keep your energy bills low this winter

Cost of living crisis one year on: ‘You don’t need to figure it out alone’
cost of living crisis
cost of living crisis

Cost of living crisis one year on: ‘You don’t need to figure it out alone’

Debt

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I lived on a poverty-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about debt
Debt

I lived on a poverty-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about debt

We need to start treating gambling harm as a public health issue – here’s why
Dr Beccy Cooper

We need to start treating gambling harm as a public health issue – here’s why

A year of Labour: How has the Starmer government fared in helping people out of debt?
Vikki Brownridge

A year of Labour: How has the Starmer government fared in helping people out of debt?

‘Broken’ council tax system means millions of Brits face visit from bailiffs – but that’s set to change
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Council tax

‘Broken’ council tax system means millions of Brits face visit from bailiffs – but that’s set to change

Financial health

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January is one of the hardest months for debt – but it’s never too late to seek help
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Vikki Brownridge

January is one of the hardest months for debt – but it’s never too late to seek help

‘I have nothing they can take’: Council tax debt collection having devastating impact on vulnerable people
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Sarah Muirhead

‘I have nothing they can take’: Council tax debt collection having devastating impact on vulnerable people

Too many people wouldn’t be able to cope with an unforeseen cost of £1,000 – that needs to change
Opinion

Too many people wouldn’t be able to cope with an unforeseen cost of £1,000 – that needs to change

‘We are in the eye of the storm’: What next for Brits facing the energy crisis?
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cost of living

‘We are in the eye of the storm’: What next for Brits facing the energy crisis?

The Big Exchange

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‘Not just for the super-rich’: How ethical investing can change the world
Ethical investing

‘Not just for the super-rich’: How ethical investing can change the world

COP28: Here’s how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us
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Kim Goodall

COP28: Here’s how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us

Richard Curtis backs The Big Exchange and urges people to make their money matter
The Big Exchange
Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis backs The Big Exchange and urges people to make their money matter

The Big Exchange: Invest in the things you care about
The Big Exchange

The Big Exchange: Invest in the things you care about

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