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How to volunteer at a food bank
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Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Thinking about volunteering at a food bank but don't know where to start? We've got you covered
Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year
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Christmas

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?
Autumn budget

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?

How do Big Issue sellers make money?
Activism

How do Big Issue sellers make money?

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?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
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Renting

Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?

How trust could transform Britain's broken benefits system
Pat McFadden, work and pensions secretary. Image: House of Commons/ Flickr
Lucy Bannister

How trust could transform Britain's broken benefits system

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

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

Everything you need to know about how to apply for universal credit
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Universal credit

Everything you need to know about how to apply for universal credit

What are the eight Marmot Principles and how could they transform the health of a local area?
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Health inequality

What are the eight Marmot Principles and how could they transform the health of a local area?

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

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

What do I do if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?
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Cost of living

What do I do if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?

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

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

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I'm eligible?
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Disability benefits

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

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

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

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained
universal credit
Universal credit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Five key things you need to know about PIP
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Disability benefits

Five key things you need to know about PIP

Cost of living payments: Where to get help in 2025 now the scheme is over
next dwp cost of living payment 2023
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payments: Where to get help in 2025 now the scheme is over

DWP payment dates in August 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
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Department for Work and Pensions

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

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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook
Right to buy

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about
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Social Justice

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about