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universal credit

October 31, 2015

Placing DWP staff in foodbanks

A few days ago, Giuseppina Salamone, a welfare rights adviser from Brighton, wrote
June 12, 2015

Concern over additional seven-day Universal Credit waiting period

The government has announced that it intends to proceed with proposals to introduce a seven-day waiting period before claimants are eligible for Universal Credit.
April 17, 2015

Conservative tax cuts worth far more to high earners, saysTUC analysis

TUC-commissioned analysis of tax policies in the Conservative Party manifesto shows a prioritising of tax cuts to the wealthy over support for lower paid earners.
March 24, 2015

Far from rethinking sanctions, IDS plans to extend them

By publishing today’s
March 8, 2015

Welfare reform is a feminist issue

On International Women’s Day, feminist organisations and campaigners who haven’t been active on austerity and welfare reform really need to have a rethink.
December 9, 2014

New five-week wait for benefits will increase food bank use, says TUC

Responding to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger and Child Poverty, the TUC warns that new rules for benefit claimants will increase food bank usage.
December 2, 2014

Disabled people and Universal Credit

Asked to review a Citizens’s Advice Bureau (CAB) report on how Universal Credit will affect disabled people, I did not expect to find it encouraging. But what the report reveals was even worse than I feared. You can read the full review on the Think Tank Review website, but here is just a flavour of what Universal Credit will mean for some disabled people.
August 22, 2014

Welfare reforms fail the Prime Minister’s new family test, says TUC

A new report from the TUC says the majority of social security cuts announced by the government will fall on working families, who will suffer twice the level of benefit losses as out of work families.
August 18, 2014

Pensioner families to suffer social security cuts of over £6bn a year, says TUC

Pensioner families across the UK will suffer social security cuts worth £6.38bn a year by the time the government’s welfare reforms have taken full effect, the TUC warned yesterday (18 August)
August 8, 2014

Five week wait for benefit harms chances of a quick return to work, says TUC

New analysis published by the TUC shows that the majority of claimants who will be hit by the new five-week wait welfare reform are short-term claimants who only claim benefit for a few weeks.