MPs have launched a fresh inquiry into benefit sanctions amid warnings of troubling cases and extreme harm being caused to disabled people. The Work and Pensions select committee will analyse
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Thousands of Universal Credit claimants are having 40% of their benefit deducted to pay back outstanding debts. Labour MP Ruth George said the high level of deductions from payments “will
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The Scottish Government has given £2m funding through Every Child, Every Chance, its Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018-22, to Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) – an innovative collaboration between Policy
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Sixty Church of England bishops as well as senior figures from other Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups have united to urge the Government to rethink its controversial benefits cap on
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The Scottish Government is to use new welfare powers to introduce an income supplement as part of a range of measures to tackle child poverty. Communities Secretary Angela Constance announced
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Discretionary welfare payments are being “hacked away”, a senior MP has claimed, after new figures showed more than £300 million has been axed from two major benefits funds. Fresh analysis
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A rough sleeping task force to cut the number of people living on the street is being launched as the Government promised to break the cycle of homelessness. Councils with
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A Government U-turn on welfare will mean 18 to 21-year-olds are automatically entitled to claim housing benefit again. Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey said the change “will reassure all
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A survey of more than 100 MS nurses by the MS Society reveals the significant pressure being placed on them to assist with benefits claims. Nine in ten (90%) said
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Glaswegian rap artist and author of ‘Poverty Safari’ will share his insight into living on the breadline next week when he talks at the University of Dundee. Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey,
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