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Charity calls for immediate increase in child element of Universal Credit to help families with rising costs

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said parents are skipping meals to ensure their children can eat.

Daily Record

DWP stops soaring numbers of Brits' Universal Credit as Jobcentres reopen after Covid

DWP data shows 38,244 benefit sanctions were imposed on Universal Credit(UC) claimants in January this year - the highest for at least three years and numbers are climbing fast

Daily Mirror

DWP staff can now arrest claimants in Universal Credit fraud crackdown

Two million claimants are set to have their cases dredged up and face fines

Liverpool Echo

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DWP officers to be given power to make arrests and execute warrants in Universal Credit benefit fraud crackdown

The 'Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System' plan outlines how 2,000 trained specialists will review more than two million Universal Credit claims.

Daily Record

UK households could get £600 warm home discount under government plans

The government are trying to tackle the cost of living crisis

Nottingham Post

New £600m plan to tackle benefit fraud to be introduced

Two thousand trained specialists will review two million Universal Credit claims in the next five years

Wales Online

DWP staff get power to arrest Brits in hardline Universal Credit fraud crackdown

Tory DWP chief Therese Coffey will announce sweeping laws to mass-request bank account data and slap people with fines even if they're not convicted of a crime. But work on the law won't start for at least a year

Daily Mirror

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‘A complete waste of time’: Ken Clarke attacks Sunak for failing to help poor hit by cost of living crisis

‘Cut out all the tax cutting’, ex-Tory chancellor says – calling for universal credit hikes instead

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak says government can’t stop inflation as clamour grows to help poorest

Chancellor offers tax breaks to business, but shuns calls for new help for families

The Independent UK

Senior Tory MP calls for ‘summer package to rescue the most vulnerable’

Sir Bernard Jenkin suggested the £20 uplift in Universal Credit ‘should immediately be restored’.

The Independent UK

DWP says 1.4m legacy benefit claimants will be better off by £220 each month on Universal Credit

Some 300,000 will see no change in entitlement, but around 900,000 could be worse off.

Daily Record

New Universal Credit identity verification process for people making a new claim to DWP

Nearly 5.6m people across the UK are receiving support through Universal Credit.

Daily Record

DWP outlines 10 ways people can boost their finances if they are struggling

One expert suggests about £15 billion of benefits remain unclaimed each year

Nottingham Post

Town is first to declare UK cost of living EMERGENCY as foodbank use surges

Eastbourne Foodbank has this year distributed more parcels per head than any other as the cost of living crisis deepens, prompting them to issue an emergency declaration, the Trussell Trust network says

Daily Mirror

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Daily Mirror

Children getting food poisoning as parents turn off fridges to save amid soaring bills

One food bank said other appliances were also being turned off by families as the cost of living crisis deepens - with reports of chilling going to school in unwashed clothes as parents avoid using washing machines

Daily Record

DWP releases new guidance which could help more people access loans worth up to £812 within 14 days

A Budgeting Loan is only available to people receiving certain benefits.

Daily Mirror

Tories vote down gas giants windfall tax that could hand your family £600

Chancellor Rishi Sunak hinted the government could perform a U-turn in future, however, as he said “no option is off the table”

Wales Online

Universal Credit claims up 13 per cent with another 200,000 people on benefits

It comes as inflation across the UK heads towards 10 per cent and unemployment stands at 3.7%

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Daily Mirror

Single parents set to lose a whole month's pay this year thanks to rocketing inflation

Damning House of Commons Library analysis finds inflation, DWP Universal Credit and National Insurance and tax changes will leave a single parent-of-two £1,214 worse off - which is what they take home after tax in a month

Daily Record

Outraged Brits working three jobs slam Tory minister as they share harsh reality

After Conservative MP Rachel Maclean suggested that people who are strapped for cash should work more hours or get better paid jobs, a number of people already working multiple roles have spoken out.

Daily Mirror

Furious Brits working 3 jobs blast out-of-touch minister as they share harrowing reality

After MP Rachel Maclean suggested people struggling for cash should work more hours or get better paid jobs, the Mirror spoke to three people already working multiple roles

Belfast Live

Cost-of-living crisis: Northern Ireland family 'using kitchen hob to heat their home'

"The worst pain and misery of the cost-of-living crisis is being felt by children in low income families"

Daily Mirror

Charity staff use their own cash to pay poor Brits' bills - 'we literally can't live'

Mum-of-two Leanne, who needed food vouchers despite working 37 hours a week and claiming Universal Credit, told Action for Children: 'I have no disposable income whatsoever'

Chronicle Live

Foodbank delivers parcels to Ponteland as cost of living crisis bites

Service has been set up to help those living in rural poverty says even families in the well-heeled suburb are feeling the pinch

Daily Mirror

All six benefits that are being switched over to Universal Credit explained

The mass transfer to Universal Credit was paused due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has once again started inviting people to move over to the new system

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