UK poverty: the facts, figures and effects in the cost of living crisis
Jan 23, 2024 · This includes 4.2 million children, which is almost one in three (29%).There are also 8.1 million working-age adults and 2.1 million pensioners living in poverty. Around two in every 10 adults are in poverty in the UK, and about three in every 10 children are in poverty.
Pension credit wait times double – fuelling fears over DWP winter …
Nov 18, 2024 · As recently as 4 November, the DWP was sending letters to pensioners advising them to apply for pension credit if they are eligible. Based on the most recent figures, someone applying for pension credit in early November would on average only receive their pension credit – and associated winter fuel payments – in mid-January. Payments can be backdated, but such delays would mean applicants ...
These charities collect furniture for free to help those in need
Nov 26, 2024 · All proceeds will go to the operation of food banks, computer recycling, and a newly found debt advice service. In West London, Trinity Homeless Projects runs charity furniture collections to stock its stores, with proceeds going towards its work ending homelessness. Sue Ryder. Sue Ryder provides palliative care and aid to those living with a terminal illness alongside providing bereavement ...
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'Disturbing' work capability reforms will see people denied benefits
Oct 30, 2024 · Hundreds of thousands of people with health conditions could miss out on financial support after the chancellor confirmed plans to tighten the disability benefits system.. In her autumn budget, Rachel Reeves suggested that Labour will honour proposals brought forward by the Conservative government to reform the work capability assessment.. This is an assessment which people with health ...
Colin Greenwood: 'I never let Jonny forget it was me who got him …
Oct 20, 2024 · Colin Greenwood was born in June 1969 in Oxford. In 1985, he and schoolfriends Thom Yorke, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway – along with younger brother Jonny Greenwood – formed a band, On A Friday, and began playing locally.
Keane's Tom Chaplin on healing rifts, 20 years of hits and new music
Nov 28, 2024 · But I was quite surprised by just how generous.There were these massive three or four minute standing ovations when we were playing in America, at almost every show that would just suddenly spontaneously happen in the middle of the show, and we just stood there feeling, well, quite surprised and in some ways quite embarrassed, just at the level of love.
All of Keir Starmer’s u-turns and abandoned policy pledges
May 16, 2024 · Keir Starmer is not afraid of a U-turn. After running for the Labour leadership on a platform promising nationalised public services, restricted foreign arms sales, and tax hikes for the richest, Starmer’s policies now look a little different.
What will the autumn budget mean for benefit claimants? - The …
Oct 29, 2024 · Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned earlier this year that there will be “difficult decisions” on welfare spending in her autumn budget, and speculation has since emerged around cuts to disability benefits and reforms which will see more people driven into work.. Set to be announced on Wednesday (30 October), the autumn budget is the chancellor’s big plan for the economy for the next ...
How does The Big Issue help the homeless?
Nov 28, 2023 · (From left to right) Daisy Hampson, Big Issue frontline worker, Jon Gregg, Big Issue vendor, Lord John Bird, founder of the Big Issue, Kelvin Gregory, Big Issue vendor, Daniel Mays, actor and Big Issue Ambassador and Leventica Paun, Big Issue frontline worker at the launch of Big Issue's Christmas campaign.