Universal Credit nightmares: Man unable to feed daughter after unwarned benefit freeze
Is this conscious cruelty or accidental agony? And which is worse? It seems the Department for Work and Pensions decided …
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Here are 10 reminders of how the Tories are freezing and starving people. Will you be next?
The Conservative victory in December’s general election has given Boris Johnson free reign to torture the UK’s poorest people. Amazingly, …
Will Bedroom Tax eviction leave this man threatened with a freezing death on the streets?
This is despicable – and shows the depths to which the Tory government sank when it imposed the Bedroom Tax …
Don’t believe Boris Johnson on benefits – he is only offering more poverty, misery and death
Boris Johnson has finally published the Conservative manifesto amid a stink of embarrassment – and, for benefit claimants, a hard …
How do you remove disabled people’s legitimacy as citizens? Remove their access to politics
Disabled former Labour election candidate Emily Brothers has launched a judicial review against the Conservative government’s decision to freeze the …
The homeless are dying in the cold again. Tories must be delighted
What did David Gauke admit to Andrew Marr on Sunday? A 134 per cent rise in rough sleeping since 2010. …
Tories sneak out continued benefit freeze behind announcement of royal engagement
Oh, joyous day! (That’s unless you receive Universal Credit, Jobseekers’ Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit, or …
As predicted: Homeless man ‘frozen to death’ on coldest night of the year
If I could predict this, it could have been prevented. It wasn’t. Less than three days ago, I wrote: “You …
Britons brace for plummeting temperatures – but will it be enough to prevent Winter deaths?
You could lose a close relative or friend in the near future – particularly if they are elderly or vulnerable …
The SNP’s great poverty betrayal
The poorest Scottish people are losing public services due to a Council Tax freeze by the SNP-run Scottish government, while …