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November 22, 2017

Child Poverty Action Group responds to Budget

Child Poverty Action Group says, "This should have been the budget that ushered in much needed structural reform of Universal Credit to revive the central promise to strengthen the rewards from work and that didn’t happen."
November 21, 2017

Victorian philanthropy, welfare reform and the budget

It’s a sad indictment of our society that in the run up to Christmas, many people feel the need to focus their charitable efforts on ensuring that children in the UK do not go hungry.
November 14, 2017

Universal Credit 'penalising self-employed'

The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee say Universal Credit is 'riddled with design flaws' and is calling on Government to fix a flaw which can leave the self-employed far worse off than employees earning exactly the same annual pay.
November 13, 2017

Unfreeze benefits and reboot Universal Credit, says Resolution Foundation

Unfreezing working age benefits and rebooting Universal Credit would provide a much needed living standards boost to young families as the majority of gains would go to millennials, according to a new report published by the Resolution Foundation.
November 12, 2017

We need accountability for the harm of welfare reform

As Sarah Batty writes in an important but grim
November 8, 2017

Universal Credit appears to be 'driven by blind faith'

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has published two further letters to the DWP, pressing it on the lack of published data or a current business case for Universal Credit, its flagship welfare reform.
November 7, 2017

Trussell Trust calls for 'emergency measures' as hunger soars

The Trussell Trust is calling for urgent changes to Universal Credit and extra donations from the public, as foodbank demand rises across the country.
November 6, 2017

The Austerity Generation - full impact of cuts revealed by CPAG

Rather than investing in our children, government policy has been creating an Austerity Generation whose childhoods and life chances will be scarred, says Child Poverty Action Group.
November 3, 2017

Universal Credit: an interview with Bernadette Meaden

The following interview, on the subject of Universal Credit, is reproduced here with the kind permission of openDemocracy.
November 3, 2017

Universal Credit puts single parents in 'impossible bind'

Single parents of pre-school aged children are at increased risk of poverty and debt as a result of new work search conditions placed on them under Universal Credit, finds new research published by Gingerbread.