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The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

Inflation set to draw extra 35,000 families into benefit cap, charity warns

Benefit cap costs average household £50 a week

The Independent UK

Devastated young mum hit with Universal Credit sanction after admin blunder that wasn't her fault

Charlie Cotton, 23, has ended up saddled with a debt at the worst possible time - even though the error was not her fault.

Daily Record

Young mum forced to repay money she can't afford after Universal Credit blunder

The error wasn't her fault

Wales Online

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Universal Credit claimants told to expect cash payment boost next month

The support comes to help with the cost of living crisis

Nottingham Post

People who get PIP and DLA benefits could miss out on £500 cost of living payments

Around six million people on disability benefits will get £150 in September but around eight million on other benefits such as Universal Credit will get a higher amount of £650

Chronicle Live

Payments will change for Universal Credit claimants in July

Universal Credit claimants are due to have extra cash hit their bank accounts

Liverpool Echo

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Universal Credit claimants will see payments change in July - what you need to know

Universal Credit claimants will receive the first part of a one-off £650 cost of living payment from next month. The first instalment of £326 will start to hit bank accounts from July 14

Daily Mirror

DWP dismisses call to introduce new £20 weekly uplift on all legacy benefits and Universal Credit

The temporary uplift of £20 to Universal Credit during the pandemic was removed in October 2021.

Daily Record

Travel crisis leads to airport staff suffering verbal and physical abuse

Some GMB union members have described being spat on and suffering homophobic abuse

Chronicle Live

Number of benefit sanctions in West Dunbartonshire has doubled since before pandemic

64 people on Universal Credit (UC) across the area were carrying a sanction in February. That was 4.7 percent of claimants, and up from 82 (three percent) in the same month of 2020, pre-pandemic.

Daily Record

Landlords set to be outlawed from banning children, pets and people on benefits

Renters are set to have more power

Chronicle Live

Tories announce rise in infant free school meals funding - of just 7p per child

Schools will be able to spend £2.41 per child on infant meals backdated to April, a rise of 7p - which was branded 'pathetic' by critics

Daily Mirror

These benefits claimants will miss out on £500 in DWP cost of living payments

Those on health and disability benefits say they have not been included in the full amount, despite having higher costs than those on other welfare payments

Chronicle Live

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Daily Mirror

'Cost of living crisis has roots in Tory governments - we desperately need Labour'

Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford writes in the Mirror on why we desperately need a Labour government in Westminster - a government which really understands the cost of living crisis and is determined to mobilise the help people need

The Independent UK

Heads ‘deeply disappointed’ at ditched plans for free school meals extension

Teachers have branded the decision ‘extraordinary’.

Chronicle Live

Mum-of-four calls for free school meals for every pupil in UK and reveals tip that got her extra help

Prime Minister is accused of doing little to tackler child hunger or soaring prices in new food strategy unveiled today

Liverpool Echo

What childcare costs help is available as prices soar by extra £2,000 per year

Parents are spending a massive chunk of their pay packets on childcare bills

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson's food expert hits out at PM for ditching new wave of free school meals

Henry Dimbleby said it was 'impossible' to claim kids on Universal Credit don't all need free school meals - as he warned the cost of living crisis is hitting some of Britain's poorest families hard

Daily Mirror

Mum-of-four who relies on vital free school meals shares little-known tip for extra help

Mum Tasha Jones says she's struggling due to the cost of living crisis as Boris looks to ditch proposals made by food tsar Henry Dimbleby over free school meals

Chronicle Live

Number of people hit by Universal Credit benefits sanctions in the North East doubles

Department for Work and Pensions figures show more and more people are having their Universal Credit cut

Nottingham Post

'Everyone's struggling' as Arnold residents speak of concerning Universal Credit sanctions

The second-worst hit district in Nottinghamshire was Gedling

Daily Mirror

Boris' free meals failure is a Dickens of a scandal - Voice of the Mirror

The lamentable failure to heed Government food tsar Henry Dimbleby’s plea to give free school meals to all children in homes on Universal Credit divides the poor

Edinburgh Live

DWP Universal Credit and Pension Credit claimants owed £2.6 billion due to error

Due to mistakes made by the Department for Work and Pensions, people claiming benefits such as Universal Credit and Pension Credit have been collectively underpaid £2.6 billion

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson shelves free school meals for up to a million kids in 'thin gruel' food plan

The Prime Minister faces fury over his Food Strategy White Paper tomorrow, after he ditched pleas from his food tsar Henry Dimbleby - including to let all kids on DWP Universal Credit claim free school meals

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