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Charities had already reported a surge in calls and visits to their advice pages following a welfare reform announcement last week.

Charities had already reported a surge in calls and visits to their advice pages following welfare reform announcement

There was outrage as the chancellor announced yet more welfare cuts which are now set to affect 3.2 million families

LABOUR’S welfare cuts will push “an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children)” into relative poverty, according to the UK…

Protesters gathered outside Downing Street to demonstrate against Labour’s cuts to welfare

Debbie Abrahams, who chairs the Work and Pensions Committee, questioned how ‘making people sicker and poorer’ would help the economy.

A disability advocate has warned that planned welfare cuts will push disabled people into poverty ahead of today’s spring statement.

The UK government is exploring updates to its Child Benefit policy, aiming to lessen the impact of the current two-child limit without full removal due to cost.

Rachel Reeves has sought to blame deteriorating public finances on a global rise in borrowing costs as she prepares to unveil a spring statement…

Scottish climate action minister Alasdair Allan called for a discounted rate to be introduced with a level of discount ‘proportionate to need’.

Since the UK Labour government took office in summer 2024, calls have intensified to scrap both the “two-child limit” – which restricts support for children through universal credit to two children – and the overall benefit cap. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves resisting this pressure as she tries to manage deteriorating…