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Nurturing Habits One Pence at a Time
In this month’s issues of the Quids In Readers Club emails, (our digital offer to low income subscribers), we’ve been…
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10 Years of Fighting This Corner
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I can’t believe it’s been ten years since we launched Quids in!. It’s been quite a…
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Worse than Injustice: State Aided Abuse
Every day another example of what’s wrong with Universal Credit (UC) seems to hit the headlines. The Siege of Caxton…
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Balancing the Budget at Both Ends
This month, Quids in! is looking at ‘income maximisation’. We’re looking at anything people in poverty can do to bring in a…
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Poverty targets hit? Who knew?
According to the Resolution Foundation, the UK hit its targets to reduce poverty in recent years. The claim comes some…
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Open banking, closing doors
Towards the end of 2017, conferences on financial inclusion started to heat up around the issue of ‘open banking’. It…
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You can lead a horse to water…
“Why don’t people do what’s in their best interests?” That was the recurring theme at a couple of events during…
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#talkmoney? What money?
First, we talked about financial inclusion, then the recession came. Then, we talked about financial capability, then welfare reform came.…
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Pause, play or stop? Is the government even considering options on UC?
Last week Citizens Advice repeated its call for the roll-out of Universal Credit to be paused. Its chief exec, Gillian Guy, described…
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‘I’ll take that’: When the ‘haves’ envy the ‘have nots’
Over the past 15 years, much of the country’s social housing has been transformed. Acres of low rise flats, tower…
