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 ...
Tag: poverty
Parent’s school dinner debt SURGING by 50% is the thin end of another wedge
A new report shows that school dinner debt has increased by 50% in the last two years. Child Poverty Action ...
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 numbers are in. Rachel Reeves’ budget will manufacture a fresh cost of living crisis.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves failed to use her budget to address out of control inequality nor to bring about significant or ...
DWP Universal Credit debt deductions is a half-baked half measure
Unsurprisingly, the Labour Party government's headline Autumn Budget plans to address the woeful state of the Department for Work and ...
Andy Burnham just SHAMED the Labour government over the bus fare cap rise
Mayor Andy Burnham has slammed the brakes on Keir Starmer raising the bus fare cap in Greater Manchester. Of course, ...
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’s latest DWP plans are a ‘Post Office scandal waiting to happen’
The Labour government's latest plans at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a Post Office scandal-scale disaster waiting ...
Half a million people demand Labour STOP callous winter fuel payments cut
Campaigners have delivered a petition to parliament from over half a million people. It calls for the Labour Party government ...
The NEU made a Labour MP who voted to KEEP two-child benefit cap the face of its free school meals campaign
The National Education Union (NEU) is running a campaign to end child poverty, and introduce universal Free School Meals (FSM). ...
New figures on the two-child benefit cap should SHAME the Labour Party
Keir Starmer and the Labour Party government's decision to keep the Tories' two-child benefit cap has plunged 10,000 children into ...
Parliament sees protests and petitions over outrageous energy company profiteering
Campaign group Fuel Poverty Action took to parliament on 1 October. It was to hand in its #EnergyForAll petition signed ...
The 10% energy price cap increase will hit poor and disabled people the hardest
Winter energy bills are about to bite for households across the country. This is because on 1 October so-called energy ...
DWP just ADMITTED it’s cutting winter fuel payments from 1.6 million people in poverty
The new Labour Party government is stripping winter fuel payments from 1.6 million pensioners living in poverty this winter. This ...
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 ...
Tens of thousands of people call on Ofgem to scrap cruel standing charges
Over 20,000 people have flooded energy regulator Ofgem's inbox calling for it to scrap cruel standing charges on energy bills. ...
After winter fuel payments cut, another energy scandal is going to deliver a double whammy for poor people
Time is running out to tell energy regulator Ofgem to scrap the cruel standing charges on energy bills. The Energy ...
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