Suspend benefit cap to protect disabled people in coronavirus crisis? It’ll never happen under Tories!
It’s a good, solid, practical suggestion: with disabled people most at risk of financial loss during the coronavirus crisis, the …
Category Archives: Universal Credit
Coronavirus crisis won’t persuade Tories to axe the five-week wait for Universal Credit
The Conservatives have insisted on forcing financial instability on hundreds of thousands of people – by refusing to ditch the …
DWP is swamped by half a million Universal Credit claims in coronavirus crisis
Another back-of-a-fag-packet Tory scheme falls apart. Boris Johnson told us that Universal Credit would be available to self-employed people who …
Coronavirus: ‘Deluge’ of benefit claimants are about to learn what it’s like to deal with the DWP
This is going to be ugly. According to The Independent, the Department for Work and Pensions is bracing itself for a …
Coronavirus: trust Iain Duncan Smith to try to wreck our chances of survival
It had to be him. Iain Duncan Smith, creator of the huge increase in poverty in the UK since 2010, …
Tories suspend face-to-face benefit assessments amid coronavirus crisis – but what’s behind their compassionate veneer?
They took their time about it. And one has to question whether it would have happened without pressure from organisations …
Budget claim of help to Universal Credit claimants is way off the mark
If this is what Tories call help, then they need to buy a better dictionary. The small print of Rishi …
Don’t get your hopes up over Johnson’s ‘rape clause’ admission
Okay, Boris Johnson has admitted that the ‘rape clause’ for Universal Credit claimants is an “injustice” and promised to do …
‘Welfare Persecution’ secretary reduced to sneaking into her own home town
Therese Coffee really is a piece of… work, isn’t she? On March 6, she made a visit to Liverpool, dropping …
Damning verdict on DWP: ‘British citizens are dying as a result of policies implemented by this government’
A bullying lawyer acting for the Tory government at the inquest of Errol Graham tried to claim that the man, …