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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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.