Category: Universal Credit News

High Court Rules Universal Credit Discriminates the Disabled

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My Universal Credit diary: “With six days to go, I have nothing left” Excerpt from NS

An excerpt from my article on the Statesman website. My diary of two weeks on Universal Credit

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‘More than 1.5 million people in the UK, including more than 350,000 children, experienced destitution last year’ – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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Tory austerity strips more than 3,000 computers with internet from libraries in England, yet Scotland and Wales see rises.

While 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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Universal Credit in Great Yarmouth: “Food Bank has seen a 90% increase in use since Universal Credit was introduced.”

Article exposing the pattern of increased foodbank use after Universal credit is introduced to an area

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Gov says Universal Credit changes could exclude 2.6 million children from Free school meals in England and Wales

Up to 2.6 million could lose out on free school meals by 2022 due to Universal Credit.

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#FoodBankChallengle takes a boost.

Hugh Grant gives the #FoodBankChallenge a boost again by donating to Airdrie Foodbank. Read more.

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Foodbanks in full Universal Credit areas see 52% increase in use and are feeling the strain.

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 Million Disabled People Sanctioned Since 2010

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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My past, laid bare in detail.

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