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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-changes-are-we-making-to-the-minimum-wage We’re also taking the first steps towards making rates the same for everyone, regardless of age, by narrowing the gap between the National Minimum Wage, for 18–20-year-olds, and the National Living Wage.
As digital technologies have developed, there has been a slow but significant shift in people using digital tools to access health and care services – and in health and care services using digital tools to deliver services. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/reality-potential-digitally-enabled-care-community
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/01/bank-of-england-cuts-interest-rates?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other It is the first reduction in borrowing costs since the Bank began ratcheting up interest rates from a record low of 0.1% in December 2021 to 5.25%, their highest level since before they were slashed in the 2008 financial crisis.
https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/donate-food/ More people than ever are being driven to food banks and the sharp increase in people needing help is outstripping food donations. Your donations are vital to ensure food banks in our network can continue to help everyone referred to them.
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/20397/ All I’m aware of at this present time is that, if you are someone claiming Universal Credit, you are asked to declare these on your claim form so I would assume from this that any Cryptoassets would be factored in as part of your capital.
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-press/articles/2024/age-uk-responds-to-the-chancellors-announcement-to-means-test-the-winter-fuel-payment/ “Means-testing WFP this winter, with virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is the wrong policy decision, and one that will potentially jeopardise their health as well as their finances – the last thing they or the NHS needs. With winter now just over the horizon, the Government…
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/20393/ DWP statistics show there are more than 800,000 eligible people who could claim PC but aren’t.
https://moneyadvicetrust.org/latest-news/6-8-million-people-struggling-to-pay-for-essentials-despite-falling-inflation/ The charity says its findings point to an increased debt burden for the most essential costs, which if unpaid can have severe consequences. Amongst callers to National Debtline: The average amount owed in rent arrears has increased by 21 percent in the last year, now standing at £1,904. The average amount owed in energy…
https://wcainfo.net/ We hope that wcainfo will help advisers in assisting people to make a new claim for benefit on the basis of their incapacity for work, and in challenging decisions to refuse, or award a lower rate of, the benefit.
https://cpag.org.uk/what-we-do/our-campaigns/help-us-imagine-better-future 4.3 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. They are isolated and excluded.