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What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained
Universal credit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained

Here’s everything you need to know about universal credit including how much it is, who is eligible and how to claim it

Why the cost of living payment will not go far enough to help vulnerable people
Cost of living crisis

Why the cost of living payment will not go far enough to help vulnerable people

Food prices are soaring at rates not seen in 45 years and energy bills are still extortionate. Charities and campaigners warn that government assistance won’t go far enough to help

Millions of people on universal credit do not have enough money to live
Cost of living crisis

Millions of people on universal credit do not have enough money to live

Charities, NGOs and social enterprises are calling for an “essentials guarantee” to ensure everyone can afford the basics needed to live

It’s time universal credit is paid differently so women in a controlling relationship can leave their abuser
Jess Southgate

It’s time universal credit is paid differently so women in a controlling relationship can leave their abuser

Gordon Brown: Universal Credit doesn’t add up
Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown: Universal Credit doesn’t add up

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Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift
Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift

Benefits calculator: from universal credit to council tax rebate, here’s what you’re entitled to
Benefits

Benefits calculator: from universal credit to council tax rebate, here’s what you’re entitled to

‘People will starve and freeze’ if government U-turns on promise to increase benefits
Cost of living crisis

‘People will starve and freeze’ if government U-turns on promise to increase benefits

‘I do not know how I’m going to survive’: Campaigners head to Number 10 to demand help in mini-budget
Cost of living crisis

‘I do not know how I’m going to survive’: Campaigners head to Number 10 to demand help in mini-budget

Forcing working universal credit claimants to do more hours ‘does nothing to help childcare crisis’
Working parents

Forcing working universal credit claimants to do more hours ‘does nothing to help childcare crisis’

New work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith has consistently voted to cut benefits
Cost of living crisis

New work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith has consistently voted to cut benefits

Gordon Brown calls for ‘urgent action’ to boost universal credit as petition reaches 140,000
Cost of Living Crisis

Gordon Brown calls for ‘urgent action’ to boost universal credit as petition reaches 140,000

Number of universal credit claimants facing sanctions soars past 100,000
Employment

Number of universal credit claimants facing sanctions soars past 100,000

DWP staff are having to claim benefits themselves
In-work poverty

DWP staff are having to claim benefits themselves

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

The North East has overtaken London as the region with the highest rate of child poverty
Cost of living crisis

The North East has overtaken London as the region with the highest rate of child poverty

Dad on universal credit has gone days without eating so he can feed his children through cost of living crisis
Cost of Living Crisis

Dad on universal credit has gone days without eating so he can feed his children through cost of living crisis

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

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

National food strategy won’t expand free school meals to another 1.1 million children, despite recommendations
Social Justice

National food strategy won’t expand free school meals to another 1.1 million children, despite recommendations

‘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

‘It’s expensive to be poor’: How the cost of living crisis has impacted food prices
Food poverty

‘It’s expensive to be poor’: How the cost of living crisis has impacted food prices

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

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

DWP tries to scrap promise to report impact of universal credit
welfare system

DWP tries to scrap promise to report impact of universal credit

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

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

You could be £1,100 a year worse off from Friday in cost of living surge
cost of living crisis

You could be £1,100 a year worse off from Friday in cost of living surge