About one in five female pensioners is living in poverty, according to Age UK. Analysis by the charity found around 1.25 million women in this group are now living below
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A £360 million “wall” of rental debt built during the coronavirus crisis is set to get worse amid imminent Universal Credit cuts, a charity is warning. About half a million
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The Work and Pensions Secretary has admitted not being aware of a Government report warning that the rise in National Insurance could increase the likelihood of family breakdown. Therese Coffey
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COVID-19 has been described as a “housing disease”. Overcrowded living conditions make it easier for the virus to spread, and statistics show a link between overcrowding and mortality from COVID.
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Ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have called on the UK Government to scrap plans to axe the £20 increase to Universal Credit and instead make the higher rate
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Glasgow contains the three Scottish constituencies which will be hit most heavily by the cut to Universal Credit, a study has found. A £20 uplift in weekly payments, which was
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Most constituencies in Great Britain are set to see more than one in three families and their children hit with the “biggest overnight cut in benefits since the Second World
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Labour would let low-paid workers take home more of their pay by replacing Universal Credit. Shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds set out the first details of his party’s
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A coalition of 120 anti-poverty organisations, charities and others is calling on the Scottish Government to “do the right thing” and commit to doubling the payment made to needy parents
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Nearly two-thirds of Scots back keeping the £20-per-week Universal Credit uplift in place at least until the economy improves, a poll has suggested. Some 35% of people surveyed by YouGov
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