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The election in May will have a major impact on the future of the welfare budget. No group of vulnerable people may have more at risk than the disabled. They are threatened with up to…
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Due to an unemployment rate of around 8% and increasing rents, the number of housing benefit claims that were filed in the North East has doubled since 2010. Another factor leading to this is the…
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Yet another study shows that the demand for assistance from food banks continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Information from Oxford University shows that the average distribution is now over 2 parcels per 100…
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The High Court determined that councils can’t include any income that a tenant has from the disability living allowance when calculating any rent help that is provided to them from discretionary housing payments, or DHP….
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The latest poverty numbers from the New Policy Institute Show that about 20 per cent of the Scottish population is living in poverty. The data has been broken down the numbers to provide more detail….
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Smart-Pig.com created an advert that claimed they would provide up to £3,500 to students and they could use the money for paying their rent. After receiving complaints from the public and some other businesses, the…
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According to the government, almost 750,000 residents either do not speak English or they struggle with it. Many of them are migrant or new to the UK. Some currently receive as much as £400 per…
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Multiple charity organisations, such as the one being run by the Independent’s Homeless Veterans, the ABF the Soldiers’ Charity as well as Armed Forces Community is the Armed Services Advice Project, are receiving donations from…
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Earlier this year the central government announced a reduction in the discretionary housing payments programme by about £40m. The cutbacks were being spread across the UK, with some council’s impacted more than others. Now, the…
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The Department for Work and Pensions worked with parliament to make changes to the Universal Credit system. This could impact an estimated 200,000 claimants that will be already enrolled into the scheme by 2016 and cause…