Is universal basic income possible here?
In Jarrow, where jobless men once marched for work, a radical experiment in free money is unfolding.
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Why the trope of the benefit “scrounger” has returned
Welfare minister Tom Pursglove quotes Taken to try to sound tough on welfare “fraudsters”.
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Why Jeremy Hunt’s Budget welfare reforms won’t work
The Chancellor announced the biggest benefit changes in a decade. But they may only make life harder for Brits who…
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Lee Anderson thinks he knows Britain – but he’s missed one sad key truth
The deputy Tory chairman has accused Britons of “abusing” food banks.
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Replacing lost Sure Start centres is a tacit admission of austerity’s failure
The Tories are trying to repair another chunk of the state they wished they hadn’t lopped off.
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The cost of dying: “pauper’s funerals” have doubled since 2019
Exclusive figures reveal how more people are turning to public health funerals in poor parts of Britain.
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Tens of thousands shut out of work by Home Office visa renewal delays
Migrants with the right to work in the UK are being denied jobs – including in care homes – and…
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How benefits have plummeted in value
Those on unemployment benefit now receive just 10 per cent of what the average worker earns.
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There is no justification for the triple lock on pensions
Millionaire pensioners are subsidised by the people who clean their homes, and Rishi Sunak knows it.
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The UK now spends more on housing benefit than on most government departments
High private rents and stagnant wages mean housing benefit now costs £23.4bn a year.
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Food bank parcels have doubled in seven years
The Trussell Trust distributed 2.17 million parcels in the most recent year, up from 1.09 million.
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Whatever Liz Truss says about welfare cuts, benefits are already in tatters
The Prime Minister may change her mind and raise Universal Credit with inflation, but the damage has been done in…
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How benefits payments have failed to keep pace with inflation
The standard monthly welfare payment is now £52 lower in real terms than in 2010.
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How Liz Truss’s stealth taxes will squeeze households
For every £1 saved by tax cuts, an extra £2 is set to be lost to tax rises and benefit…
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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0
Britons on low incomes dread the Liz Truss government’s “reverse Robin Hood” plan, which prioritises bankers over benefit claimants.
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“People have nowhere to turn”: Britain’s first “warm banks” open their doors
Charities and councils offer refuge for people who cannot afford heating this winter.
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Who pays for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mess? Welfare claimants, as always
The government’s giveaway to the rich may be matched by real-terms cuts to benefits for the poorest and most vulnerable.
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Liz Truss’s National Insurance cut would fail to help Britain’s poorest
The Tory front-runner’s proposal would save the poorest tenth of households just 76p per month.
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How the value of child benefit has plummeted
The welfare payment is now worth less than it was in 1999.
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Hundreds of Ukrainian families are being left homeless in the UK
At least 660 Ukrainian households have found themselves with nowhere to stay.
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