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Scots OAPs only heat one room and stay in bed for warmth, says fuel poverty report

Pensioners told how they had caught pneumonia, only heated one room in their home to cut costs and stayed in bed all morning to keep warm

Daily Record

Benefit equality for young parents must be priority to tackle child poverty

Record View says every effort should be made to eliminate poverty and give all children a fair start.

Daily Record

Calls for £100-a-month boost to Scottish Child Payment for struggling parents

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners want SNP ministers to increase the Scottish Child Payment to comat "staggering" poverty levels among young parents.

Daily Record

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Finance companies ‘may make $30bn’ by delaying debt relief for five countries

Exclusive: Debt Justice says hardline stance is preventing progress on alleviating poverty

The Guardian - UK

‘Cruel and demeaning’ if Albanese government restores single-parent payment only until children reach high school, advocates say

Chair of women’s economic equality taskforce says families would fall ‘back into poverty’ if eligibility age is not raised back to 16

The Guardian - AU

State completes formulation of micro plans to eradicate extreme poverty

Kerala has completed a micro-plan formulation to eradicate extreme poverty.

The Hindu

Ofgem to call for vulnerable households register, with 1.7m to miss energy support

Report shows government plan for targeted help would fail to reach homes not registered for benefits

The Guardian - UK

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Zoe Daniel: Enough of being treated as a minority – women need commitment to real change

Budgets are about choices and priorities, and ours are skewed. Women have had enough of being treated like a minority.

The New Daily

Katy Gallagher ‘unchanged’ on stage-three tax cuts, won’t commit to raising jobseeker

Leaving welfare payments at current rate ‘unconscionable and grossly irresponsible’, says anti-poverty body

The Guardian - AU

Afghan interpreter shot by Taliban living in poverty as 'racist' Army delays payout

Jamal Barack was 18 when he was shot in the arm and chest during an ambush on the Army’s Scots Guards in Helmand Province. He has been waiting for compensation for 13 years

Daily Mirror

Labor pours cold water on increasing jobseeker – leaving progressive voters scratching their heads

Labor may be correct that it can’t solve poverty in one budget, but it has no excuse not to begin the process

The Guardian - AU

‘Massacre of the Hungry’ in Sanaa Leaves More than 200 Dead, Wounded

Medical sources in Sanaa reported that more than 200 people were killed and wounded in what has come to be called the “massacre of the hungry”. The stampede tragedy occurred when hundreds of people in the poverty-hit country had gathered at a school in the capital Sanaa to receive cash…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Narcan’s over-the-counter price will still put it out of reach for many, experts say

The life-saving drug “Narcan” is expected to be available over-the-counter later this year, but its price tag is expected to put it out of reach for many below the poverty line.

Tribune News Service

Mayor and Government urged to take action on food poverty in London

Both the Mayor and the Government have been urged by the London Assembly to take further action to address food poverty in the capital

Evening Standard

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Calpol is most shoplifted item in London borough amid cost-of-living crisis

Tower Hamlets has the highest level of child poverty in the UK with over 50% children living in households below the poverty line

Bristol Post

DWP: New rules on £150 energy discount issued to PIP claimants as 290,000 miss out

The government has said that people on disability benefits aren't in enough 'fuel poverty' with their energy bills

Dynamite News

Study finds memory, mental health of people with epilepsy linked with neighborhood

According to new research, people with epilepsy who live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with higher poverty rates and fewer educational and employment opportunities may be more likely to have memory, thinking, and mental health problems than people with epilepsy who live in less disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Read further on Dynamite News;

Nottingham Post

DWP PIP and DLA claimants issued £150 energy discount warning as thousands miss out

People on disability benefits aren't in enough 'fuel poverty' with their energy bills, the Government said

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The New Daily

Raising dire JobSeeker rates looms as a character test for Albanese government

Government faced with growing warnings that not substantially lifting welfare payments in the budget will be to fail a test of its character.

The Conversation

Boosting JobSeeker is the most effective way to tackle poverty: what the treasurer's committee told him

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth established an Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee in December 2022 to advise the government on ways to lift economic inclusion and reduce disadvantage.

The Guardian - AU

On jobseeker I’m not treading water but drowning. Where’s my lifejacket?

I was hoping for help from the Albanese government in the coming May budget but it stung me to hear there would be none

The Guardian - AU

Father Bob Maguire, Melbourne priest loved by the poor but not by the Catholic hierarchy – obituary

Maguire, himself brought up in dire poverty, deployed charisma and tireless activism in the cause of the ‘unloved and unlovely’

The New Daily

Calls to support worst-off Australians surviving on $13 a day

Australian students are trying to scrape by on just $13 a day as welfare payments fail to keep pace with the cost of living, new analysis shows. A report

The Guardian - UK

Michael Lipton obituary

Development economist who championed poor rural people, their approaches to agriculture and their health

Chronicle Live

North East families could be missing out on £3m in free fruit and veg as MP calls to tackle child poverty

Hundreds of North East families aren't claiming money they're entitled to for fruit and veg - and MP Emma Lewell Buck wants to see changes to help tackle rising child poverty

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