Universal Credit: 180,000 stripped of DWP benefits in latest move
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/05/21/dwp-has-now-stripped-over-180000-people-of-their-benefits-in-forced-move-to-universal-credit/
#UniversalCredit
#HousingBenefit
#ESA
#JSA
#IncomeSupport
#IncomeBasedESA
#IncomeBasedJSA
#LegacyBenefits
#WorkingTaxCredit
#DWP
#ManagedMigration
#BenefitsStopped
#ForcedMigration
#Destitution
#ParliamentaryWorkAndPensionsSelectCommittee
#WarOnThePoor
#SavingMoneyByCuttingClaimants
'A Relentless Assault': the Staggering Rise in Child Poverty in the UK – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/14/a-generation-in-peril-the-staggering-rise-in-child-poverty-in-the-uk/
When did #WarOnPoverty turn into this bloody #WarOnThePoor?
If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points | Micha Frazer-Carroll | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/tories-cared-mental-health-mel-stride
#Tories
#MentalHealth
#Stride
#Benefits
#WarOnDisabled
#WarOnTheIll
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnTheMentallyIll
#WarOnTheChronicallyIll
#WorkRelatedStress
#BadJobs
#BackToWork
#Jobcentres
#TherapistsAtJobcentres
#Workfare
#Workhouses
#CBT
#Medicines
#RecoveryInTheBin
#Poverty
#Homelesness
#Austerity
Rishi Sunak: I’ll slash benefits to fund plan to scrap national insurance | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-benefits-national-insurance-b2510044.html
#Sunak
#Benefits
#BenefitCuts
#NationalInsurance
#NI
#Tories
#Hunt
#WarOnThePoor
#NationalInsuranceContibutions
#NICs
#Labour
Life on benefits under Labour will not be an option, says Liz Kendall | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/04/life-on-benefits-under-labour-will-not-be-an-option-says-liz-kendall
#Benefits
#Sanctions
#NotInEducationEmploymentOrTraining
#NEET
#Kendall
#Labour
#Unemployment
#Unemployed
#BasicEducation
#Education
#MentalHealth
#WarOnDisabled
#WarOnThePoor
#Mind
#BenefitsAssessments
#InstituteForEmploymentResearch
#EmploymentSupport
#FluctuatingConditions
#Ableism
#March2nd
#Harrisburg
#MassAction
#VoicesUnited
#FinancialJustice
#EconomicCrisis
#HousingInequality
#HealthcareRights
#EndPoverty
#DebtStruggles
#ChildhoodPoverty
#AirAndWaterJustice
#SystemicChange
#WarOnThePoor
#TaxDollarsMatter
#PowerInUnity
#PovertyAbolitionists
#EndPovertyDeaths
#RichestCountry
#SocialJustice
#SilentNoMore
#OrganizeForChange
#PAActivism
#CommunitySolidarity
#March2Hbg
Disabled benefit claimants recall 'cruel' DWP video assessments
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disabled-benefit-claimants-pip-video-assessment-cruel/
#DWP
#Disabled
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnDisabled
#Cruelty
#Tories
#CruelTories
#PIP
#PIPAssessments
#SetUpToFail
Sunak says he will 'reward' tightening benefits by cutting taxes
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/sunak-says-he-ll-cut-taxes-before-and-after-election-by-curbing-welfare-and-govt-spending/ar-AA1mz3om?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=38ab0a27822c446ea6ffe3d3f9e0db36&ei=4
#WarOnThePoor
#Poverty
#GovForTheRich
#Welfare
#BenefitCuts
#Benefits
#TaxCuts
#TaxCutsPaidForByBenefitsCuts
#Tax
#Sunak
#Tories
Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/oct/07/angus-deaton-interview-book-economics-in-america