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Families around the UK have been adapting to lockdown and changing their daily routines. Many parents with children that have special needs have been worried about the effects on their child’s education and health. Jennifer was one of them. She...
The relatively new Universal Credit system is being tested to its limit as hundreds of thousands of new applicants sign up, many of whom have lost their job due to the shutdown. The system has benefitted from being mostly online,...
Food shopping has taken on a new resonance for many of us recently. From accusations of panic-buying, or booking an online delivery slot nearly a month in advance, to wondering if chocolate counts as an essential item I can just...
During this crisis, the Department for Work and Pensions have had to deal with a sudden and steep rise in requests for welfare payments, needing to adapt rapidly and deliver payments on a scale greater than ever before. However, when this is over...
The retired and those living in retirement or care homes are facing unprecedented challenges. All have found their daily lives severely curtailed, with no visits from family and friends to look forward to. Until recent figures were released, the huge...
Within a few minutes of Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary, the presiding general consensus seemed to be that his exit was more of a Brexit, and his alleged motivation for leaving – concern regarding the scale...
On Sunday, the Observer published statistics which suggested over 85 per cent of the calls to the Government’s benefits fraud hotline between 2010 and 2015 had no case to answer. At around 890,000 false allegations, that’s nearly 500 per day,...
In the public outpouring of (genuine) grief upon the loss of David Bowie yesterday, you could be excused for missing an interesting intervention by another David, the Prime Minister, heralding what appeared to be the return of the ‘social strategy’....
While public debate is focused on cuts to tax credits, and whether their staged introduction and move to National Living Wage will soften the blow for the working poor, a more interesting and nuanced reform is underway. In August, Ian...
