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Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’
Benefits

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect
Housing benefits

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect

Keir Starmer’s pledge on benefits ‘deepens stigma’ and leads to ‘fear and shame’
Benefits

Keir Starmer’s pledge on benefits ‘deepens stigma’ and leads to ‘fear and shame’

Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley on losing George Michael: ‘There’s a sadness now to Christmas’
Music

Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley on losing George Michael: ‘There’s a sadness now to Christmas’

Inside this issue: Wham!’s Last Christmas turns 40
Inside the Big Issue

Inside this issue: Wham!’s Last Christmas turns 40

Mum-of-three hit with ‘revenge eviction’ after asking for repairs: ‘It felt like the end of the world’
Renting

Mum-of-three hit with ‘revenge eviction’ after asking for repairs: ‘It felt like the end of the world’

Housing minister admits Labour’s 1.5 million homes promise will be ‘more difficult than expected’
Housebuilding

Housing minister admits Labour’s 1.5 million homes promise will be ‘more difficult than expected’

Energy bills have pushed UK inflation to 2.3% – and we need ‘bold’ thinking to bring it back down
Inflation

Energy bills have pushed UK inflation to 2.3% – and we need ‘bold’ thinking to bring it back down

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
Food banks

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

Big Issue’s social investment arm reaching 1.8 million Brits through investees
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue’s social investment arm reaching 1.8 million Brits through investees

Britain’s data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: ‘We’re watching you’
Artificial Intelligence

Britain’s data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: ‘We’re watching you’

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions ‘dangerously’ rationing heating
Energy bills

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions ‘dangerously’ rationing heating

Pension credit wait times double – fuelling fears pensioners may miss out on DWP winter support
Pension credit

Pension credit wait times double – fuelling fears pensioners may miss out on DWP winter support

Inside the Big Issue: Wicked Ways
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Wicked Ways

Reverend and the Makers release Samaritans charity single: ‘You don’t have to be on your own at Christmas’
Music

Reverend and the Makers release Samaritans charity single: ‘You don’t have to be on your own at Christmas’

‘Punitive’ asylum system pushing refugees into homelessness: ‘It’s fuelling injustice’
Homelessness

‘Punitive’ asylum system pushing refugees into homelessness: ‘It’s fuelling injustice’

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Loss of physical bank branches leaving pensioners at ‘greater risk of scams’
Financial and digital inclusion

Loss of physical bank branches leaving pensioners at ‘greater risk of scams’

1 in 5 Brits say they’ve sofa surfed amid record levels of homelessness heading into Christmas
Homelessness

1 in 5 Brits say they’ve sofa surfed amid record levels of homelessness heading into Christmas

Sadiq Khan warns lack of affordable homes causing ‘profound and devastating’ effect on Londoners
Housing

Sadiq Khan warns lack of affordable homes causing ‘profound and devastating’ effect on Londoners

Big Issue recognised for ‘punchy, buccaneering swagger’ at prestigious journalism awards
Big Issue Success

Big Issue recognised for ‘punchy, buccaneering swagger’ at prestigious journalism awards