DWP pays HALF A BILLION to dead people – while underpaying pensions & cutting benefits
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has mistakenly paid £512 million in state pension and pension credits to deceased ...
Tag: inequality
It’s Fat Cat Monday 2025 – with FTSE 100 bosses earning £1,298.46 an HOUR this year
The median FTSE 100 CEO's earnings for 2025 will surpass the median annual salary for a full-time worker in the ...
Starmer chaos leaves a million older people hungry as even Labour MPs warn worse to come
When the new Labour Party government immediately went after older people, the Canary and many others warned that their needless ...
Two parents working full time cannot even meet the bare minimum standard of living, CPAG finds
A couple with two children working full time on the minimum wage are still £138 short per week of a ...
Inequality Street: the charity that’s giving the finger to homelessness this Christmas
Birmingham based homelessness charity SIFA Fireside is rewriting the rules of Christmas with its latest campaign — Inequality Street — ...
One in four households with very young children are in food poverty. Labour has no excuse.
A new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has highlighted that a quarter of households with children under four ...
Guardian whitewashes a damning report into poverty for Black, brown, and disabled people
In a stark indictment of decades of institutional racism, ableism, and classism by governments, the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) 2024 ...
300 people a DAY are dying in poverty – and they’re more likely to be working at the time
110,000 people died in poverty last year, according to a report from end of life charity Marie Curie, with research ...
The poorest people will be £600 a year WORSE OFF thanks to the Budget
The poorest 10% of people will see their tax burden increase by £600 a year as a consequence of the ...
The latest Royal exposé shouldn’t come as a surprise from these grubby inbreds
Many think of the modern Royal Family as powerless figureheads who exist solely to attract tourist money. A new Royal ...
Billionaires produce more carbon in 90 minutes than YOU do in your entire LIFE
An average hour and a half in the lives of 50 of the world's richest billionaires emits more carbon pollution ...
UK wealth inequality skyrockets by 50%. Neoliberalism is to blame.
The gap in absolute wealth between the poorest 10% and richest 10% of people in the UK increased by 48% ...
Labour is not addressing the single biggest issue for private renters on benefits
Buried in the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) housing figures is a damning fact about the current state of ...
Barnardo’s reveals the extent of child poverty while demanding two-child benefit cap is lifted
More than one in four parents of children aged 18 or under in Scotland have struggled to provide sufficient food ...
DWP Pension Credits campaign is still a con for countless older people
The UK government has recently made the contentious decision to cut winter fuel payments for a significant portion of older ...
Tax Justice Network takes down the myth that the super rich will leave if we tax them more
Tax Justice Network has documented that just 0.01% of super rich households relocated after Norway, Sweden, and Denmark introduced increased ...
#UniformReform: parents fighting back against extortionate branded uniform requirements
As families across the UK gear up for the upcoming school year, the financial strain of purchasing branded school uniforms ...
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