More Scots are being forced to ask for emergency aid to help with the cost of feeding their families and heating their homes, with six council areas across the country
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Philip Hammond will announce a £2 billion increase in funding for mental health services as he delivers what is expected to be his final Budget before Britain leaves the EU.
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Philip Hammond used his Budget to offer early tax cuts for millions of workers and extra cash for Whitehall departments, as he began the process of easing austerity. Boosted by
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Philip Hammond’s Budget will do nothing for those “massacred” by the Universal Credit welfare reforms, a veteran MP has said. Frank Field, who chairs the Commons’ Work and Pensions Committee,
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Jeremy Corbyn criticised Philip Hammond for delivering a “broken promise Budget” as he insisted austerity needs to end because it has failed. The Labour leader said eight years of austerity
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Universal Credit is causing unacceptable hardship for many of its claimants, according to a report from a public spending watchdog. It suggested the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears
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Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has acknowledged further change is needed to the system of Universal Credit (UC) amid fresh warnings it is causing “unacceptable” hardship to claimants. Ms
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Tens of thousands of cancer patients, including many who are terminally ill, will face further “hardship, stress and anxiety” if they are forced to transfer to Universal Credit (UC), a
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An extra £1.67 billion is to be paid to tens of thousands of disabled benefit claimants after years of underpayments, the Government has revealed. The Department for Work and Pensions
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Actor Alun Armstrong branded a disability benefit only given to people unable to walk more than 20 metres a “cost-cutting exercise”, as he joined a protest against the rule. People
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