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Disability benefits system is damaging claimants' health, DWP's own analysis finds: 'It's degrading'
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Disability benefits

Disability benefits system is damaging claimants' health, DWP's own analysis finds: 'It's degrading'

Danny Dyer: 'I don't trust Keir Starmer. Why Angela Rayner's not leading things I don't know'
Danny Dyer in his Big Issue tabard
Danny Dyer

Danny Dyer: 'I don't trust Keir Starmer. Why Angela Rayner's not leading things I don't know'

Scrapping two-child benefit cap 'single most cost-effective policy' to reduce child poverty
Stock image of a baby being held by its mother
Child poverty

Scrapping two-child benefit cap 'single most cost-effective policy' to reduce child poverty

Homelessness soars in England due to sky-high rents and asylum backlog crackdown
A child and her mother who are experiencing homelessness
Homelessness

Homelessness soars in England due to sky-high rents and asylum backlog crackdown

Olivier-winning theatre maker Jamie Eastlake: 'The North East is on the verge of 90s Manchester'
Gerry & Sewell cast at Newcastle Theatre Royal
Theatre

Olivier-winning theatre maker Jamie Eastlake: 'The North East is on the verge of 90s Manchester'

Homelessness services face cliff-edge unless Labour gives budget boost for rough sleepers
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to extend rough sleeping funding to help homelessness services
Rough sleeping

Homelessness services face cliff-edge unless Labour gives budget boost for rough sleepers

Former vendor Earl John Charlton returns to his old pitch as Big Issue arrives in Newcastle
Earl John Charlton and Orinoco the Womble
Big Community

Former vendor Earl John Charlton returns to his old pitch as Big Issue arrives in Newcastle

Tenants of TV star Stephen Mulhern left 'living with damp and mould for two years'
Television presenter Stephen Mulhern with inset photos of mould at properties he rents out
Exclusive

Tenants of TV star Stephen Mulhern left 'living with damp and mould for two years'

AJ Odudu: 'I knew we were working class. I shared the top bunk with my younger sister for years'
Exclusive

AJ Odudu: 'I knew we were working class. I shared the top bunk with my younger sister for years'

The Piano's Brad Kella: 'I want to see kids in the care system reach their dreams'
Brad Kella
Music

The Piano's Brad Kella: 'I want to see kids in the care system reach their dreams'

'It's time to listen': Labour conference votes for government to reverse winter fuel payment cuts
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Winter fuel payments

'It's time to listen': Labour conference votes for government to reverse winter fuel payment cuts

Labour's plan to 'get Brits back to work' must not be an excuse for slashing benefits, charities say
Disability benefits

Labour's plan to 'get Brits back to work' must not be an excuse for slashing benefits, charities say

DWP's crackdown on welfare fraud risks 'criminalising' innocent benefit claimants, Starmer warned
Starmer at the Labour party conference
Benefit fraud

DWP's crackdown on welfare fraud risks 'criminalising' innocent benefit claimants, Starmer warned

DWP's uncertainty over future of PIP leaves benefit claimants in fear: 'What's going to happen to me?'
yolanda barker
Benefits

DWP's uncertainty over future of PIP leaves benefit claimants in fear: 'What's going to happen to me?'

Starmer promises planning passports will put 'rocket boosters' on Labour housebuilding efforts
Keir Starmer delivering a speech
HOUSING

Starmer promises planning passports will put 'rocket boosters' on Labour housebuilding efforts

Rachel Reeves promises 'no return to austerity' amid fears of cuts to benefits in autumn budget
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Social Justice

Rachel Reeves promises 'no return to austerity' amid fears of cuts to benefits in autumn budget

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
This genius idea could help solve the housing crisis and prevent homelessness all at once
Housing crisis

This genius idea could help solve the housing crisis and prevent homelessness all at once

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change

'Destitution by design': UK's 'hostile environment' has left thousands destitute and homeless
A rough sleeper's belongings
Immigration

'Destitution by design': UK's 'hostile environment' has left thousands destitute and homeless

Revealed: Housing gentrification 'costing low-income Londoners £80 a week'
Aylesbury Estate in Southwark one of the council estates earmarked for demolition
Housing

Revealed: Housing gentrification 'costing low-income Londoners £80 a week'