Monday is the first working day of the new tax year, bringing substantial increases in vital benefits payments – in particular the state pension and…
View More UK state pensions and benefits: what do the changes in April mean for you?Tag: Universal credit
Cost of living crisis: some low-paid workers miss out on £326 help
Some low-paid workers on universal credit have missed out on the government’s first cost of living payment because of payroll quirks that removed their benefit…
View More Cost of living crisis: some low-paid workers miss out on £326 helpMore than a third of parents fail to contribute towards child maintenance payments
Nearly 40% of parents who are supposed to contribute towards the upkeep of their children through the government-run child maintenance system are failing to make…
View More More than a third of parents fail to contribute towards child maintenance paymentsCost of living payments: who qualifies, when is it paid and what do you get?
Households entitled to the government’s cost of living payments, announced by the chancellor in May to help with the rising cost of energy and food,…
View More Cost of living payments: who qualifies, when is it paid and what do you get?North-east England overtakes London as UK’s child poverty hotspot
The north-east of England has the highest rate of child poverty of anywhere in the UK, for the first time overtaking London as the nation’s…
View More North-east England overtakes London as UK’s child poverty hotspotWhat are the cost of living payments – and how much can you get?
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a £15bn package of measures to help UK households deal with inflation. These include discounts on energy bills and…
View More What are the cost of living payments – and how much can you get?Further 250,000 UK households face destitution in 2023, warns NIESR
More than 250,000 households will “slide into destitution” next year, taking the total number in extreme poverty to around 1.2m, unless the government acts to…
View More Further 250,000 UK households face destitution in 2023, warns NIESRUK must spend on home insulation and heat pumps, ministers told
The UK government must urgently bring forward billions of pounds in pledged spending on insulation and heat pumps, and reinstate the universal credit uplift to…
View More UK must spend on home insulation and heat pumps, ministers told‘People are desperate’: Kent food bank and families hit hard by inflation
With its colourful beach huts and quaint high street, Whitstable is a tourist mecca in the school holidays. But the pile of shopping bags in…
View More ‘People are desperate’: Kent food bank and families hit hard by inflationUK pensions shortfall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, says former minister
The pension underpayment scandal could be the tip of the iceberg affecting many thousands more people, according to the former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb,…
View More UK pensions shortfall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, says former minister