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Families face childcare cliff-edge as parents set to foot bill for wraparound care

Jeremy Hunt announced an "ambition" for all primary schools to provide childcare between 8am and 6pm in last week’s Budget speech - but when the 'startup cash' runs out, parents will be on the hook

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak’s accountants urge retention of non-dom status

Evelyn Partners recently confirmed PM made around £5m in past three years, mostly through investments

The Guardian - UK

Full list of benefits going up from April 2023 – from Universal Credit to state pension

Inflation-linked rises detailed, all applying from April 10

Nottingham Post

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Who will win the next general election? The odds and polls

Rishi Sunak is celebrating a sharp fall in inflation to 6.8%, bolstering his pledge to halve the rate by the end of the year.

The Week

What is the energy support scheme and when does it end?

Households will continue to get the current level of help with their energy bills for another three months

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt has left the UK to rot in poverty. So we must take matters into our own hands

With hygiene banks now joining food banks and clothes banks, I’m calling on retailers to take drastic action and help their poorest customers, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

English councils spent £480m on ‘inadequate’ care homes in four years

Exclusive: Investigation finds huge sums of taxpayers’ money spent on poor quality private homes

The Guardian - UK

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Ministers 'delay' state pension age rise to 68 – but over 50s must still wait longer for payments

The state pension age will still increase to 67 as planned the Department of Work and Pensions is set to rule

Nottingham Post

Martin Lewis confirmed to join Good Morning Britain as a regular presenter alongside Susanna Reid

The news comes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt referenced the Money Saving Expert’s invaluable contribution to the 2023 Budget during his address to the House of Commons

Evening Standard

New free childcare budget 2023 changes explained - who will get them and when

Chanceller Jeremy Hunt announced the improvements - but they won't all come in immediately

Nottingham Post

What to do if your Universal Credit has been sanctioned as DWP to impose ‘tougher’ rules

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the Spring Budget that the sanctions would be applied “more rigorously” to those who fail to meet strict work-search requirements or choose not to take up a reasonable job offer

Daily Mirror

What today’s rise in interest rates means for your money and when they might go down

It is the 11th consecutive increase in the base rate, and the highest since 2008

Wales Online

A third of care homes in England have considered closing due to rising energy bills

Care England says there is ‘no justification for charging such financially crippling rates’

The Guardian - UK

New childcare funding could add £100,000-plus to London homebuyers’ budgets

From being able to afford a first property to redrawing a search map entirely, home loan experts explain how the new childcare support could help young families in the capital

Evening Standard

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AFP

Surprise jump in UK inflation deals new cost-of-living blow

London (AFP) - British inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February, official data showed Wednesday, deepening a cost-of-living crisis and pressuring the Bank of England to hike interest rates further despite global markets turmoil.

Daily Record

Food prices at highest level in 45 years as UK inflation unexpectedly rises again

Shortages of vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers in recent weeks were largely behind the rocketing food inflation.

AFP

UK inflation unexpectedly accelerates

London (AFP) - British inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February, data showed Wednesday, deepening a cost-of-living crisis and pressuring the Bank of England to hike interest rates despite global markets turmoil.

Wales Online

Inflation leaps again thanks to rising food and drink prices

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: “We recognise just how tough things are for families across the country

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The Guardian - UK

Good riddance to the work capability assessment, the cruellest social policy of modern times

Thousands of people have died after wrongly being found ‘fit for work’, but benefits campaigners aren’t celebrating yet, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Hunt’s jobs drive will push mothers on benefits to work 30-hour week

Exclusive: Single mothers of three-year-olds will be disproportionately hit by ‘unconscionable’ policy, say charities and academics

The Independent UK

April dates for DWP payments, benefits, pensions and cost of living top ups

Three-month extension of energy price guarantee welcomed but key state support schemes expiring

Daily Mirror

Benefit sanctions regime should be suspended during cost of living crisis, ministers told

The demand from the IPPR think-tank comes a week after the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned in the Budget that the Tory Government would apply benefit sanctions more 'rigorously'

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt plays down economic crisis risk as Budget watchdog warns of 'stress' in system

The Chancellor said the UK is in a better position than it was during the 2008 financial crash with a 'resilience that there wasn't back then'. But the chief of the OBR warned the system was 'under stress'

The Independent UK

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions shake-up receives support from MPs

MPs voted 330 to 233, majority 97, in favour of the Budget resolution on the lifetime allowance charge and annual allowance.

The Guardian - UK

Pension pot offer won’t fix NHS workforce crisis

Letters: The focus must be on retaining existing staff and reducing private sector work, writes consultant haematologist John Hanley. Plus letters from Robin Davies, Jo Pike and Orest Mulka

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