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One in five Scots out of money before payday, poll shows

ONE in five people in Scotland are running out of money before payday, a poll from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found.

The National (Scotland)

Calls for struggling Universal Credit claimants to be given £700 emergency cash boost amid cost of living crisis

Former Conservatives leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for benefits to be increased in line with inflation to help Brits struggling amid cost-of-living crisis

Manchester Evening News

Emergency DWP cash boost of £700 proposed from end of June for people on Universal Credit

Three options are being discussed, the other two being increasing work allowances back to their 2015 levels or bringing back a £20 a week uplift

Liverpool Echo

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Cost of living: 9 reasons you can get free NHS dental treatment

There are a number of ways you can access free NHS dental treatment, which will be a massive help in the cost of living crisis. Are you eligible?

Leeds Live

DWP Universal Credit claimants could get £700 emergency cash boost from end of June

The move would mean 4.2 million households would gain an average of £729 a year

Nottingham Post

DWP emergency £700 cash boost proposed from end of June for those on Universal Credit

Other options put forward include bringing back the £20-a-week uplift paid during the pandemic

Chronicle Live

Mum's fight for survival as cost of living crisis leaves family unable to make ends meet

Gemma Carlsson earns £456 a month and gets £665 in Universal Credit, but the cost of living crisis means her £400 a month food bill and her £260 energy bills will go up

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'Out-of-touch Tories think they have discovered the solution to poverty'

Mark Steel says Conservative Party MPs would tell someone who finds it hard to live on Universal Credit to stop working in a hospital and run Formula 1 racing instead

Daily Mirror

Tory peer who helped set up Universal Credit calls for benefits boost

Baroness Philippa Stroud has also called for the £20 uplift to be restored having previously warned that its removal would plunge thousands into poverty

Evening Standard

DWP Universal Credit fraud crackdown allows officers power to make arrests and execute warrants

The plan will save the taxpayer £2 billion

Nottingham Post

PIP, Universal Credit and other benefits to be paid early due to Spring and Platinum Jubilee bank holidays

DWP benefits and Tax Credits payment dates may change if it falls on June 2 and 3.

Daily Record

Legacy benefits timetable for managed migration to Universal Credit not known until DWP completes 'discovery phase'

MPs asked DWP about the planned timeframe for managed migration in areas across the UK.

Daily Record

DWP Universal Credit warning as staff given power to arrest claimants

Department for Work and Pensions staff may be given sweeping new powers to arrest claimants and issue fines — as well as have easier access to their bank details

Glasgow Live

New DWP plan to tackle benefit fraud to focus on these five areas of Universal Credit claims

A new 2,000-strong team will review more than 2m existing Universal Credit claims over the next five years.

Daily Record

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The Guardian - UK

‘We’ve had our humanity ripped away’: meet Jeshi, the rapper raging at the cost of living crisis

The east London MC was carrying a knife at 11 but is now about to release an era-defining album. The trouble is that it’s the Tories’ austerity era – something he’d rather see the back of

Liverpool Echo

DWP outlines nine ways to get more cash amid cost of living crisis

It comes as millions of people are hit hard by the cost of living crisis

Liverpool Echo

Mums-to-be can claim a £500 maternity grant from the government

Pregnant women can claim the Sure Start Maternity Grant - but there are certain rules

Chronicle Live

How expectant mums can claim one-off £500 from the government

The Sure Start Maternity Grant is a one-off payment that you don't have to pay back, but does come with specific rules

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The National (Scotland)

DWP given powers to arrest benefits claimants in draconian new measures

SPECIALIST benefits office staff will be given the power to make arrests as part of a new push to crack down on welfare fraud.

Wales Online

The £500 grant available to pregnant women

There are some terms and conditions to get the Sure Start cash

Daily Record

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 Mirror

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

Liverpool Echo

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

Daily Record

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.

Nottingham Post

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

The government are trying to tackle the cost of living crisis

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