https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-09/4836 Answered on16 September 2024 We continue to prioritise new claims to PIP to ensure claims are put into payment as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this means many customers are waiting longer than expected for their review to be undertaken.
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Empty plates and cold homes: What it’s like to grow up in poverty in 2024
https://www.barnardos.org.uk/research/empty-plates-and-cold-homes-what-its-grow-poverty-2024 Poverty affects every part of a child’s life and leaves too many struggling with their education, health and happiness. Today, more than one in four children in the UK live in poverty and around one million children are living in extreme poverty.
JRF – Cost of Living dashboard
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/insight.infrastructure/viz/JRF-CostofLivingdashboard/Home Cost of living dashboardNow, we bring you the cost of living dashboard where you can explore some of the data we have gathered in an interactive way. It shows: the types of essentials people reported going without the types of bills people reported being in arrears with.
Where next for the Household Support Fund? Why the need for crisis support remains
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/where-next-for-the-household-support-fund-why-the-need-for-crisis-support/ We are seeing record numbers of people coming to us for local welfare advice. In the first 6 months of 2024, we had already supported over 50,000 people with localised social welfare issues – 17,200 more people than we helped over the first 6 months of last year, and twice as many people as…
Desperation in plain sight
New Trussell Trust research is both alarming and shaming. Labour cannot defer action while waiting for an economic upturn https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/03/the-guardian-view-on-poverty-in-britain-desperation-in-plain-sight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Universal Credit is falling short
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Government support extended to help struggling households with bills and essential costs over winter
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-support-extended-to-help-struggling-households-with-bills-and-essential-costs-over-winter Millions of vulnerable people to receive help this winter as the Work and Pensions Secretary extends the Household Support Fund £421 million boost for local authorities in England to help people most in need with the cost of their energy, food and water, with £79 million for devolved administrations
The Living Standards Outlook 2024
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/the-living-standards-outlook-2024/ After what looks set to be the worst Parliament on record for income growth, the new Government came to power promising to kickstart economic growth as the first of its ‘five missions’, emphasising that this is the key to unlocking improvements in living standards. This is the right area to focus on as, prior…
Rachel Reeves is set to extend the household support fund
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/27/rachel-reeves-extend-support-fund-help-poorest-households?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The chancellor is understood to be looking at a fifth extension of the scheme, which was launched in autumn 2021 to allow councils to distribute small grants for essentials for people in need. The details of the extension have not been finalised.
Here, we look at the some of the benefits available to vulnerable people and examine those most in need of a drastic overhaul.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/23/the-benefits-challenges-facing-labour-as-millions-prepare-for-a-tough-winter?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Labour backbenchers are warning that millions of vulnerable people will face a “cruel winter” amid rising energy prices and a reduction in benefits, including the removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.