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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

Daily Mirror

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

Wales Online

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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'

Daily Mirror

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

Manchester Evening News

All the Tories demanding Liz Truss stops benefit cut as she faces Cabinet showdown TODAY

Liz Truss is still weighing up whether to raise benefits in line with inflation, despite an avalanche of opposition from Tories across the spectrum. We look at what a DWP Universal Credit cut would mean for you - and the MPs against it

Daily Mirror

Expanding free school meals could pump up to £41bn into the economy

A major study has found free school meals slash costs for parents, save the NHS cash by cutting obesity, and boost pupils' lifetime earnings because they do better at school

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DWP giving millions on Universal Credit and other benefits extra cash from next month

People on Universal Credit, Pension Credit and other benefits are eligible for the financial boost

Liverpool Echo

Dithering Truss leaves families in benefit limbo as Kwarteng may need to cut £60BILLION

Lib Dem Wendy Chamberlain warned the failure of Prime Minister Liz Truss to make a decision on benefits meant "millions of people are left in a grim limbo" across Britain

Daily Mirror

Over 500,000 DWP Universal Credit claimants denied cost of living payment

More than half a million Universal Credit claimants across the UK were denied the first £326 cost of living payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Edinburgh Live

Unearthed 2018 clip shows Liz Truss warn tax cuts like hers could lead to 'boom and bust'

The clip, taken in 2018, showed the PM appearing to contradict her £43billion plan to slash taxes, which will increase the national debt.

Daily Record

Liz Truss warned tax cuts like hers could lead to 'boom and bust' in unearthed 2018 clip

The embarrassing footage from when Liz Truss was at the Treasury appears to contradict her £43billion plan to slash taxes, which will hugely increase the national debt

Daily Mirror

When people on Universal Credit will get second DWP cost of living payment and who is eligible

Millions of people on Universal Credit will receive an extra £324 before Christmas

Manchester Evening News

Food bank blames energy bills for massive jump in number of users

Services buckling under the strain of new users pushed into food poverty by the cost of living crisis.

Wales Online

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Chronicle Live

DWP PIP £156 benefit millions claim every week - and it can continue for up to 10 years

PIP claimants can receive up to £156.90 a week - this guide explains how they are awarded and reviewed by the Department for Work and Pensions

Nottingham Post

Mum in dispute with DWP over missing Cost of Living payment

A bank statement appears to show it hasn't been paid

Wales Online

551,000 on Universal Credit missed £326 payment and more will miss next payment

The failure to be awarded the cost of living payment has been put down to a quirk in the way payments are calculated

Nottingham Post

More than 550,000 DWP Universal Credit claimants denied cost of living payments

“It’s staggering," said Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth

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Daily Record

Liz Truss' forced U-turn on income tax must be repeated with benefit payments

Record View says it still beggars belief the idea of cutting Universal Credit in real terms was seriously being considered.

Manchester Evening News

More than half a million DWP Universal Credit claimants have been denied a cost of living payment

More than 550,000 people on Universal Credit this summer were denied the vital cost of living payment due to the assessment criteria

Daily Record

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

This “staggering” technicality meant their income was temporarily too high to get a cost-of-living payment - even though usually it is much lower.

Daily Mirror

Tories to order Liz Truss to ditch 'ludicrous' benefit cuts in Cabinet showdown

The embattled new Prime Minister has sparked a backlash from her Conservative colleagues over plans to snatch hundreds from the 5.7million people on Universal Credit

Chronicle Live

'Staggering' half a million DWP Universal Credit claimants were denied £326 cost of living payment

More than 500,000 people didn't get the £326 cost-of-living payment that Universal Credit claimants were entitled to.

Daily Mirror

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

More than 500,000 people who were on Universal Credit this summer did not get a vital cost of living payment to help with energy bills - due to the way it was assessed

Nottingham Post

Report calls for 21 DWP Universal Credit changes in radical shake-up

It is described as fundamentally flawed

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