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Housing Indicators
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/major-programme/housing-indicators/ Housing is fundamental to living standards. It is most families’ largest expense, meaning disposable incomes are highly sensitive to changes in rents or mortgage payments. Our 12 housing indicators track how housing is affecting living standards in the UK. Using data from 13 separate sources, some of the indicators below describe the situation today…
Secretive DWP Welfare Algorithms Put Millions’ Rights at Risk
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/37614/ Secretive DWP Welfare Algorithms Put Millions’ Rights at Risk Millions of people across the UK are being profiled by biased algorithms every year by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), with the high-tech tools threatening data rights on a mass scale while officials fight to keep details out of public view. ‘Suspicion by…
What is a Money Bill?
https://publiclawproject.org.uk/blog/what-is-a-money-bill/ Last Tuesday, the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons. The Bill, which forms part of a wider set of welfare reforms, sought to change Universal Credit rates and restrict eligibility for Personal Independence Payments. During Tuesday’s debate, the Government committed to drop the latter,…
Universal Credit claimants statistics on the two child limit policy, April 2025
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025 The statistics show: in April 2025, 469,780 Universal Credit households were affected by the two child limit policy: that is, they had a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017. This was an increase of 13,520 (3%) from the total number of households affected on either Universal Credit or Child…
Universal Credit Bill passes Committee stage and Third Reading in the Commons
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/universal-credit-bill-passes-committee-stage-and-third-reading-in-the-commons Following a 6-hour debate and vote, newly re-named Bill is passed by 336 votes to 242 The newly re-named Universal Credit Bill has passed its remaining stages in the Commons.
Today’s debate on the UC & PIP Bill hasn’t resolved huge gaps in the severe conditions criteria
https://medium.com/@ayaz_manji/todays-debate-on-the-uc-pip-bill-hasn-t-resolved-huge-gaps-in-the-severe-conditions-criteria-97d40ce01d58 What’s the issue? The provisions in the bill will cut the Universal Credit health element in half for most people receiving it after April 2026. By 2030 this will be a cut of £3,000 per year for 750,000 disabled people. The severe conditions criteria set out in Schedule 1 provides some protection from this…
The government has today published a list of amendments to the new welfare reform bill ahead of its Committee stage next week.
among the amendments put forward in the name of the Work and Pensions Secretary are changes relating to – ‘personal independence payment’ being removed from the title of the legislation, so that the Act will be the ‘Universal Credit Act 2025’;the removal of Clause 5 relating to personal independence payment eligibility;providing for universal credit to…
https://www.ucpipbill.co.uk/
https://www.ucpipbill.co.uk/ Joint briefing ahead of Second ReadingOn Tuesday 1st July, MPs will be asked to vote on the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade. This briefing from ten organisations including Scope, Citizens Advice, Mind, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell sets out the latest evidence on…
Liz Kendall has today introduced the new Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in the Commons.
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/work-and-pensions-secretary-introduces-new-universal-credit-and-personal-independence-payment-bill-in-the-commons above-inflation increases in the universal credit standard allowance for the tax years 2026/2027 to 2029/2030 (Part 1);reducing the rates of the limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) element for new claims for the tax year 2026/2027 (Part 2);for 2026/2027, providing for entitlement to a higher rate of the LCWRA element, equal to…