Families on the brink of destitution face a “postcode lottery” for emergency help because of failures in transferring responsibility to local councils and a spending squeeze on town halls, MPs
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Cancer patients could be at risk of losing their homes if Government cuts to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) go ahead, a charity has warned. Macmillan Cancer Support commissioned research
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Kinship carers should be made exempt from the Government’s benefit cap and other welfare restrictions to help prevent children being placed into the care of the state, Alan Johnson has
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The Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee has said a huge cultural shift will be required to create a better Scottish welfare system, in a new report published yesterday. The Committee’s
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An estimated 750,000 elderly people are being forced to choose between paying for food and heating, a charity has warned. A survey of 1,000 people aged 65 and over for
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) are to host a seminar exploring the experiences of asylum seekers dealing with children and welfare services. The “Views and experiences of asylum
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The new Universal Credit system will mean a less generous benefit entitlement for working families, a respected economic think tank has said. An estimated 2.6 million working families can be
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A Government failure to exempt individual family carers in receipt of carer’s allowance from the benefit cap amounts to “objectively unjustifiable indirect discrimination” and is not lawful, a High Court
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The Government has been accused of adopting a “kangaroo parliamentary procedure” to stifle debate and “fast track” changes to Northern Ireland’s benefits system through Parliament. The Stormont Assembly voted to
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Young males between the ages of 10 and 24 have committed suicide in growing numbers as a direct result of austerity measures brought in across Europe following the 2009 recession.
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