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 …
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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 …
Call for Budget boost to tackle poverty and boost incomes is naive political optimism
Give the SNP its due: at least the Scottish nationalists are keeping Tory impoverishment of the public in the national …
Tories are telling workers with coronavirus to claim Universal Credit – what a con!
This Site hasn’t paid any attention to coronavirus so far – but the claim that workers affected by it should …
Hunger striker hoped to highlight the faults of Universal Credit and PIP
A Leicestershire man went on hunger strike for nearly seven weeks to highlight problems with Universal Credit. Angus Silverstone, 58, …