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Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024
winter heating payment
Cost of living crisis

Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024

How do Big Issue sellers make money?
Vendor Nick Cuthbert
Activism

How do Big Issue sellers make money?

How does The Big Issue help homeless people?
Big Issue Winter Support Kit launch at Christmas
Activism

How does The Big Issue help homeless people?

Where does my money go when I buy The Big Issue?
Vendor Kelvin Gregory
Activism

Where does my money go when I buy The Big Issue?

How many empty homes are there in the UK?
How many empty homes are there in the UK? The Big Issue investigates. Image credit: Estate Agent Networking / Pixabay
Housing

How many empty homes are there in the UK?

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis
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Child poverty

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis

5 ways to help those suffering in the deadly Israel-Hamas war
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Israel-Palestine conflict

5 ways to help those suffering in the deadly Israel-Hamas war

What is a People's House? The demand made by Keir Starmer's glittery conference protester
Keir Starmer, People's House
Democracy

What is a People's House? The demand made by Keir Starmer's glittery conference protester

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained
living wage
Minimum wage

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government
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15-Minute Cities

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government

Here's when people got the disability cost of living payment – and what to do if yours is missing
Image of person in wheelchair/ Disability cost of living payment
Cost of living crisis

Here's when people got the disability cost of living payment – and what to do if yours is missing

Will net zero make you broke? Here's all the support on offer to make the switch
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Net zero

Will net zero make you broke? Here's all the support on offer to make the switch

Pension triple lock: What is it and how does it affect me?
An older man sits on a couch looking at an iPad. Pension triple lock
Pensions

Pension triple lock: What is it and how does it affect me?

Nutrient neutrality: Why scrapping EU pollution rules to boost housebuilding has caused uproar
Changing river pollution to boost housebuilding has enraged the RSPB
Environment

Nutrient neutrality: Why scrapping EU pollution rules to boost housebuilding has caused uproar

Everything you need to know about London’s Ulez scrappage scheme
Ulez sign in London
Ulez

Everything you need to know about London’s Ulez scrappage scheme

Inflation is slowing, can I still ask for a pay rise?
Work advice

Inflation is slowing, can I still ask for a pay rise?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Zero-hours contracts: Are they legal and what rights do they give me?
Gig economy workers tend to be on zero-hour contracts or short-term, freelance contracts rather than permanent jobs with a set number of hours.
Insecure work

Zero-hours contracts: Are they legal and what rights do they give me?

Just Stop Oil: Everything you need to know about the fossil fuel protest group
Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil

Just Stop Oil: Everything you need to know about the fossil fuel protest group

When will mortgage rates go down?
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housing crisis

When will mortgage rates go down?

How the Bank of England’s interest rate hikes are filtering through to your finances
Interest rates

How the Bank of England’s interest rate hikes are filtering through to your finances