Benefits

Energy bills set to be higher than universal credit payments in January
Cost of living crisis

Energy bills set to be higher than universal credit payments in January

'Using less energy isn't an option': Disabled people set to be hit hardest when bills soar again
Energy bills

'Using less energy isn't an option': Disabled people set to be hit hardest when bills soar again

DWP staff are having to claim benefits themselves
The green job centre plus sign hangs above a wet and dirty concrete architrave
In-work poverty

DWP staff are having to claim benefits themselves

Estate agents caught saying they don't rent homes to people on benefits
rent benefits discrimination protest Acorn Liverpool
Renting

Estate agents caught saying they don't rent homes to people on benefits

Cost of living payments: Anxiety and confusion as millions left waiting for support
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payments: Anxiety and confusion as millions left waiting for support

Low-income households set to receive cash payments to help ease cost of living crisis
Rishi Sunak
Cost of living crisis

Low-income households set to receive cash payments to help ease cost of living crisis

What new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi can do to tackle the cost of living crisis
Cost of living/ Image of chancellor
Cost of living crisis

What new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi can do to tackle the cost of living crisis

More than eight million families to get new cost of living payment in July
A woman holds a glass jar marked
Cost of living

More than eight million families to get new cost of living payment in July

Boris Johnson's plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled 'baffling and unworkable'
Housing crisis

Boris Johnson's plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled 'baffling and unworkable'

'I feel stuck': How the cost of living crisis is impacting universal credit claimants
cost of living crisis

'I feel stuck': How the cost of living crisis is impacting universal credit claimants

These pensioners are on a rent strike over surging service charges
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RENTING

These pensioners are on a rent strike over surging service charges

40% of landlords say they would not rent out their property to people on benefits
Renting

40% of landlords say they would not rent out their property to people on benefits

Child benefit: Why your payment has been reduced ahead of the Queen's Jubilee
Welfare system

Child benefit: Why your payment has been reduced ahead of the Queen's Jubilee

'They wanted pet rent': Intense competition for a home leaves renters facing extraordinary demands
Renting

'They wanted pet rent': Intense competition for a home leaves renters facing extraordinary demands

Universal credit switchover risks pushing people into 'destitution', charities warn
universal credit debt advice
Welfare system

Universal credit switchover risks pushing people into 'destitution', charities warn

Universal credit switch will leave up to 900,000 benefit claimants worse off
A young person, seen from above, sits on the floor looking through a stack of bills in front of a laptop
Social Justice

Universal credit switch will leave up to 900,000 benefit claimants worse off

Digital exclusion is creating a ‘two-tier’ system for people claiming benefits
digital exclusion
Digital inclusion

Digital exclusion is creating a ‘two-tier’ system for people claiming benefits

Elderly people are 'riding buses all day to stay warm', experts warn ministers
inflation
cost of living crisis

Elderly people are 'riding buses all day to stay warm', experts warn ministers

Ministers’ logic ‘difficult to comprehend’ as benefits hit 35-year low
benefits
welfare system

Ministers’ logic ‘difficult to comprehend’ as benefits hit 35-year low

Benefit claimants suspected of ‘wrong-doing and deceit’ when trying to access government support, says study
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welfare system

Benefit claimants suspected of ‘wrong-doing and deceit’ when trying to access government support, says study