Food bank use is still “well above” what it was before the coronavirus pandemic, with an increasing number of emergency parcels feeding children, charity figures show. The Trussell Trust handed
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An estimated 2.8 million people with mental health problems across the UK have fallen into council tax debt during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity. The Money and Mental
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Football star Marcus Rashford dedicated his MBE to his mother as he vowed there is more to come in his campaign to help disadvantaged children. The England and Manchester United
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Three in 10 unpaid carers are struggling to make ends meet, while more than half are worried about their finances, research suggests. Providing unpaid care is pushing thousands of families
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Peers have inflicted a decisive defeat on the Government in demanding it retain the triple lock on state pensions in the face of a “cost-of-living storm”. The House of Lords
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A quarter of stillbirths and a fifth of premature births across England are due to socio-economic inequalities, research suggests. A review in The Lancet of more than a million births
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More than three-quarters of the British public do not have faith in Boris Johnson’s plans to level up society, research suggests. Some 59% of people polled by the charity Hope
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Big Issue founder Lord John Bird is due to lead a debate in Parliament on Thursday asking for immediate action to prevent a mass homelessness crisis. Lord Bird is expected
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Boris Johnson is “abandoning millions” to hardship by pushing ahead with the fiercely opposed cut to Universal Credit (UC), a charity has warned. In 35 parts of Britain, at least
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Some 3.8 million households on low incomes are estimated to be in arrears with household bills, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Around 950,000 are thought to be in
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