BBC Journalist Michael Buchanan describes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) continued denials that Universal Credit isn’t working like “trying to talk to some sort of flat earth movement.”
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Friday 15th June 2018 ∼ Alex Tiffin Universal Credit has taken significantly longer to roll-out than intended, may cost more than the benefits system it replaces, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will never be able to measure whether it has achieved its stated goal of increasing employment. In today’s report, the National Audit Office (NAO) concludes that
Read moreThe High Court in London has ruled that the government acted ‘unlawfully’ in denying two men disability premiums on their Universal Credit claim. The Victorian Gothic style main entrance to the The Royal Courts of Justice public building in London, UK, opened in 1882. shutterstock Mr Justice Lewis, was told during a hearing in May that the men have been
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An excerpt from my article on the Statesman website. My diary of two weeks on Universal Credit
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Alex ∼ @RespectIsVital ∼ 8th June 2018 Universal credit tips the already poor into hardship, say charity, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. More than 1.5 million people in the UK, including more than 350,000 children, experienced destitution last year, their study found, this meaning they regularly went without food, toiletries, adequate clothing or shelter. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says a “tangled combination” of benefit
Read moreWhile Scotland and Wales see rises in the number of computers in libraries, England see’s a dramatic fall of 3000. Austerity isn’t working.
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Article exposing the pattern of increased foodbank use after Universal credit is introduced to an area
Read moreUp to 2.6 million could lose out on free school meals by 2022 due to Universal Credit.
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Hugh Grant gives the #FoodBankChallenge a boost again by donating to Airdrie Foodbank. Read more.
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Trussell Trust year end report makes for stark reading. Foodbanks UK wide are running out and need our help and High Grant comes to the aid of another foodbank.
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A four-year study by University of Kent lecturer Ben Baumberg Geiger & the Demos cross party think tank, has found that disabled claimants receiving Job Seekers Allowance, (JSA), were 26-53% more likely to be sanctioned than claimants who were not.In just ten years they found that; disabled people have been hit with OVER 1 million sanctions.
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Well those of you following me on twitter will have seen events unfold about my past. I’d like to address this in detail now. So you’re probably wondering what happened. To address this it’s best I go back to the start. On the 5th of June 2017, I broke up with my long term partner and mother of my children.
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