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DWP could monitor your bank account and social media activity at any time in fraud crackdown

More than 600 people across the UK were convicted of benefit fraud in the last year.

Daily Record

Families with children ‘to be hit hardest if benefits are uprated by earnings’

Nine million households containing 30 million people will be affected if benefits rise in line with earnings, according to the Resolution Foundation.

The Independent UK

The Mancunian Way: Chronicling the cost-of-living crisis

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Manchester Evening News

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DWP urges people to check if they qualify for £3,600 cost of living boost

The Department for Work and Pensions has urged people to check if they are eligible for a benefit worth up to £3,624 a year — as well as an additional Christmas bonus

Glasgow Live

Now is the time to end high broadband prices for hard-up households

Did you know there are reduced broadband tariffs for households on Universal Credit? Most people don’t - which means take-up is scandalously low. Broadband companies must urgently do more to promote these offers, says cost of living expert Greg Marsh

Evening Standard

People on certain benefits or low income can now get fibre broadband for less than £13 each month

BT, Sky, Now Broadband and Virgin Media social tariffs could help bring down household outgoings.

Daily Record

Mum forced to cut back on her own food so her kids can eat amid cost-of-living crisis

With a household income of around £18,000, every penny is being stretched, meaning both Kalli Speariett and her husband are sacrificing their own meals to feed their two children

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Four in ten families in parts of Scotland facing ‘largest ever benefits cut'

NEARLY four in ten working-age families in some areas of Scotland will be hit by the “largest permanent benefits cut ever made in a single year”…

The National (Scotland)

Parents cutting back on food so they can afford to feed their kids

Paying for household bills is a struggle, says Kalli Spearitt

Wales Online

Tory ex-Health Minister backs more free school meals - piling pressure on Liz Truss

Lord Bethell, who served under Boris Johnson, said ensuring all children in Universal Credit households get free school dinners would boost the economy by helping kids learn and improving their health

Daily Mirror

Liverpool mum cutting back on her own food so her kids can eat

Kallie Spearitt and her family are struggling amid the cost of living crisis

Liverpool Echo

DWP denies 'staggering' half a million Universal Credit claimants of £326 cost of living payment

More than half a million people were denied a £326 summer cost-of-living payment to help with rising energy bills, it has been revealed by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Glasgow Live

Martin Lewis MSE issues broadband advice to anyone on Universal Credit

It is estimated four million households are eligible for cheaper broadband

Liverpool Echo

One in five of all families face having their benefits cut in 200 Tory seats

New research shows the scale of the disaster hitting not just Brits on benefits, but the MPs they could turf out of office if Liz Truss goes ahead with plans to cut benefits

Daily Mirror

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Manchester Evening News

Government brings forward major Halloween Universal Credit statement

Kwasi Kwarteng has buckled under pressure to bring forward plans that may affect millions of Brits

Edinburgh Live

DWP Universal Credit claimants in Scotland could be '£290 worse off' next year

Households in Scotland claiming Universal Credit could be almost £300 worse off in real terms next year if the UK Government does not commit to increasing the benefit in line with inflation

Daily Mirror

How Universal Credit cut would affect your payments as 8,000 hit in Liz Truss's seat

Liz Truss is still weighing up whether to raise benefits by earnings instead of inflation - which would be a real-terms cut. We've crunched the latest numbers on how it could affect you in April 2022

The Independent UK

Half a million Universal Credit claimants refused £326 cost of living payment

New figures reveal how many claimants missed out on £326 payment intended to help with cost of living crisis

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Daily Record

Scots families on Universal Credit could be '£290 worse off' if Liz Truss doesn't uplift benefit

The UK Government is under pressure from its own MPs to ensure Universal Credit is increased in-line with inflation.

Daily Record

Social Security Advisory Committee to face questions on DWP managed migration process to Universal Credit

DWP will transfer 2.6 million people on legacy benefits to Universal Credit by the end of 2024.

Daily Mirror

Mum unable to pay energy bills forced to consider putting disabled daughter in care

Yvette Clements is full-timer carer to her daughter Rosey, a young woman living with athetoid cerebral palsy; a movement disorder caused by damage to the developing brain

Daily Mirror

Virgin Media O2 cuts price of its broadband to £12.50 a month - see who can get it

Virgin Media O2's price cut will benefit those hit hardest by rising costs, offering them the cheapest broadband social tariff in the market - see if you qualify

Wales Online

Jamie Oliver says more children should be given free school meals

He also said Boris Johnson had to 'nearly die' before he agreed with him on the subject

Daily Mirror

Jamie Oliver blasts unkind Tories branding Liz Truss 'ship passing in the night'

The TV chef said Liz Truss won't change her mind on school dinners but he was 'calm' as she will be just a 'ship that passes in the night'

Manchester Evening News

Virgin Media cuts broadband package price for vulnerable households as cost-of-living crisis hits

The national telecoms company is cutting internet prices for those on Universal Credit

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