20 October, 2022
20 October, 2022
Committee Chair highlights urgency of honouring the commitment previously given in the light of government's recent decision to restrict energy price guarantee to just six months
20 October, 2022
CPAG and Action for Children set out analysis of income cuts faced by workers in different professions, including loss of more than £600 per year for a hospital porter with two children
19 October, 2022
Assurance to MPs follows yesterday's Downing Street briefing that Prime Minister and Chancellor are 'not making any commitments on individual policy areas at this point'
19 October, 2022
New IFS analysis identifies shortfall of £500 per year for average working-age claimant as a result of below-inflation benefit increase in April this year
18 October, 2022
However, Mr Hunt tells MPs that all decisions will be made 'through the prism of what matters most to the most vulnerable'
18 October, 2022
18 October, 2022
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee highlights that material originally produced by Department to explain increase in administrative earnings threshold did not give affected claimants a full picture of how or why the policy change was being implemnented
18 October, 2022
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights also calls on governments around the world to involve people in poverty in design of policies to tackle soaring cost of living
17 October, 2022
More than 3,000 support staff sign letter warning that their organisations are struggling to cope as demand for support outstrips food and financial donations
17 October, 2022
New analysis shows that almost 150,000 eligible families are missing out on vouchers every month
14 October, 2022
Recommendations include abolishing the earnings threshold and increasing the payment rate so it aligns with a worker's wages up to the real living wage
13 October, 2022
Liberal Democrat, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and Green Party MPs also call for interim changes to make investigations into serious incidents more 'effective, transparent and accountable'
13 October, 2022
New HMRC statistics also show that the total number of tax credit claims continues to decrease due to the rollout of universal credit
12 October, 2022
Failure to be transparent is increasing anxiety among claimants and risks reducing the effectiveness of the programme, Advisory Committee tells Work and Pensions Committee
12 October, 2022
Figures supplied by DWP Minister in context of continuing lack of official universal credit WCA statistics
11 October, 2022
Amendments to 2021 draft Order further extend eligibility to include pregnant cohabiting partners and allow for retrospective payments to be disregarded as capital for 12 months
11 October, 2022
Letter expressing concern about impact of current crisis on poverty levels calls for immediate action including an emergency £25 uplift for all means-tested benefits and the abolition of the benefit cap and two child limit
10 October, 2022
CPAG analysis finds that almost all these children will be in families where at least one parent is working
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