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Everything you need to know about Labour’s child poverty strategy
Save the Children projected stark child poverty statistics onto the Houses of Parliament
Child poverty

Everything you need to know about Labour’s child poverty strategy

Big Issue explains everything you need to know about the government’s long-awaited strategy to bring down child poverty in the UK
Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here’s what you need to know
rachel reeves
Universal credit

Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here’s what you need to know

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

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DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?
Benefit fraud

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland’s Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle
Lapland

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland’s Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle

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Cost of living crisis

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Everything you need to know about Labour’s child poverty strategy
Save the Children projected stark child poverty statistics onto the Houses of Parliament
Child poverty

Everything you need to know about Labour’s child poverty strategy

Universal credit is set to rise – but it needs to be based on the amount we actually need to get by
two people in a supermarket
 Katie Schmuecker

Universal credit is set to rise – but it needs to be based on the amount we actually need to get by

Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here’s what you need to know
rachel reeves
Universal credit

Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here’s what you need to know

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Advice & support

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Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025
dwp benefits christmas/ bauble
Christmas

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025

Energy bills are rising this October. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living

Energy bills are rising this October. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?
money/ pip backdated payments
Disability benefits

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments
DWP disability benefits
Disability benefits

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments

Facts and figures

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Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025
dwp benefits christmas/ bauble
Christmas

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025

Energy bills are rising this October. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living

Energy bills are rising this October. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?
money/ pip backdated payments
Disability benefits

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?

Food banks

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Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking
Bianca Robinson

Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts
A Trussell food bank worker sorting food parcels. Image: Dan Prince
Food banks

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts

I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever
Hugh McNeill

I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: ‘Our future is secure’
Food banks

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: ‘Our future is secure’

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Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way
Darren McGarvey
Health inequalities

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way

Thousands of children find hope in tent schools in Gaza: ‘We try to make the students smile’
Students at Gaza Great Minds
Gaza

Thousands of children find hope in tent schools in Gaza: ‘We try to make the students smile’

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families
Food preparation and the cafe at Granville Community Kitchen in North West London. Image: Mary Turner/ IFAN
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families ‘before it’s too late’
Marie Maubouche
Adoption

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families ‘before it’s too late’

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