Government pledges end to children living in B&Bs
The child poverty strategy also includes making childcare more accessible for families on Universal Credit.
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'It's only going to get worse': Life in Britain's Universal Credit capital where hard-working families are sick of their benefit scrounger neighbours ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The Budget has divided public opinion but there is nowhere the split is more evident than in the Universal Credit capital of the UK.
10 days ago
25,000 more families to claim handouts as two-child cap is lifted by Reeves
Ms Reeves was accused of caving in to Labour MPs by announcing that parents will once more be allowed to claim Universal Credit and tax reductions for their third or subsequent children.
18 days ago
'They get free phones, uniforms and houses. Why can't we?': Despairing parents in England's poverty capital bemoan golden treatment of asylum seekers while they scramble to survive on Universal Credit
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
In Newport, Middlesbrough, six out of seven children are currently classed as living in poverty, meaning their households have an income that is 60 percent less than average.
20 days ago
Nearly 1.3m foreign nationals are now getting Universal Credit as Tories demand cuts to handouts instead of tax hikes
The latest government data show that 1,270,107 people who were not UK or Irish nationals were receiving the main jobless handouts as of last month.
25 days ago
Four million Brits now claiming jobless benefits without any requirement to work after rise of over a MILLION people under Labour ⊕
A record 8.3 million people were claiming Universal Credit in October - equivalent to almost a quarter of the working age population - up from 7.2 million at the same point last year.
68 days ago
Sicknote youths to dodge clampdown: Pledge to stop benefits for the workshy won't include those with anxiety
Under the Chancellor's 'youth guarantee', 18 to 21-year-olds who have been on Universal Credit for 18 months without earning or learning will be offered paid work.
69 days ago
Rachel Reeves tells out-of-work youngsters to take a job or lose their benefits - as she vows guaranteed employment for youths in subsidised work scheme
Rachel Reeves will vow to 'abolish' long-term youth unemployment by guaranteeing paid work for those aged 18 to 21 who have been on Universal Credit for 18 months without earning.
3 months ago
Jobless benefits claimants up by a million since Labour came to power: Record 8million are signed off work - and nearly half don't have to look for a job
There were 6.9 million people on Universal Credit in July 2024 compared to the 8 million claiming the benefit last month.
4 months ago
Nearly £1 in every £10 of Universal Credit was wrongly paid last year with an eye-watering £5.2bn lost to fraud as Labour faces demands to get a grip
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The Department of Work and Pensions admitted £6.35billion was overpaid in Universal Credit in 2024-25.