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In a cost of living crisis, how can we improve benefits take-up?
In a landscape where inflation is expected to surpass eight per cent while benefits have risen by only 3.1 per…
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Campaigners Celebrate End of Debt Commissioners’ ‘Ill-Fated Adventure’
Money and Pensions Service under siege from debt advice collective over botched commissioning A collective of debt advice agencies, under…
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Food poverty? There’s a catchphrase that belongs in the bin
A little house and some gold bullion in Mr Chips’ freezer… Can you guess the catchphrase? Frozen assets of course.…
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Universal Credit: a cut too far?
There was no shortage of warnings to the government about ending the Universal Credit uplift. The extra £20 Covid cash…
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The rising cost of dying in Britain
With the average price of a funeral now more than £4,000, the number of people who just can’t pay represents…
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Re-connecting In The New Normal
Most of us are keen to get back to some sort of normality in the way we work. But what…
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The Lows of High-Cost Credit
The biggest trend to hit the online retail sector is buy-now-pay-later services. Since the start of the pandemic, five million…
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The Right to Breathing Space
The government’s response to the national debt crisis comes into force this month. But despite well-meaning intentions, could this new…
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Restart: New Start Or Just History Repeating?
With Kickstarter underway, attention is now turning to help for the unemployed over-25s The government has promised more help to…
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Leaving Millions Behind
We often speak about the poverty premium – how poorer people pay more for products and services than people who…