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The Met Office extended its cold weather warning yesterday to a seven-day cold snap with ice and freezing fog with the government warned its cold Weather Payments of £25, triggered by the big freeze in 300 postcode areas, will make little difference

The UK Government is being urged to change Universal Credit and increase the basic rate of support to help people this winter.

The UK Health and Security Agency has issued a cold weather alert recommending vulnerable people warm their homes to at least 18C, wear extra layers and eat hot food to protect themselves from plummeting temperatures

Hundreds of thousands of low-income families are going without the heat, food and clothing needed to stay warm, new research shows

Hundreds of thousands of low-income families are going without the heat, food and clothing needed to stay warm, new research shows

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a heightened awareness of ethnic inequality in the UK. Despite some recent studies on housing conditions in the context of the pandemic, little attention has been paid to how racial inequality and homelessness intersect.

The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts a 13.4 per cent rise in people placed on health and disability benefits

Experts attack claim that 90,000 pupils would be forced into state schools by tax change that Labour says could fund thousands of extra teachers

At the moment, the Government plans to increase benefits in line with earnings

The Resolution Foundation said real-terms benefits could be at their lowest level since the early 1980s - as ex-Chancellor Sajid Javid said a cut wouldn't be 'social justice'

A vast majority of the public, and nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019, believe that benefits should rise in line with inflation, as Liz Truss considers a 5.4% increase which critics warn will plunge the poorest into misery