Poverty

‘Get Britain Working’ risks becoming empty words without urgent reforms to the benefits system
Anela Anwar

‘Get Britain Working’ risks becoming empty words without urgent reforms to the benefits system

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

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’

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
Food banks

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

Labour warned against ‘scare tactics’ after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to ‘get Britain working’
Department for Work and Pensions

Labour warned against ‘scare tactics’ after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to ‘get Britain working’

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children
Christmas

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK’s food bank crisis
Alex Firth

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK’s food bank crisis

‘Living is expensive’: DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating
Winter fuel payment

‘Living is expensive’: DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: ‘It’s a political choice’
Winter fuel payment

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: ‘It’s a political choice’

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg
Sabine Goodwin

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’
Food banks

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’

‘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

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty
Winter fuel payment

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades
Social Justice

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades

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

Balancing childcare and work is driving up poverty – especially for children with additional needs
Hannah Mackay-Christie, Leigh Elliott

Balancing childcare and work is driving up poverty – especially for children with additional needs

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Yes, I was rude, but 30 years of the same inaction on homelessness is exhausting 
John Bird

Yes, I was rude, but 30 years of the same inaction on homelessness is exhausting 

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

PIP is a lifeline for me as a disabled person. Here’s a great way to claim for the DWP benefit
Alicia Cartwright

PIP is a lifeline for me as a disabled person. Here’s a great way to claim for the DWP benefit

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