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Over Half of Investigations Against Councils Upheld Last Year By the Ombudsman.  The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s annual report has revealed that 57 per cent of the investigations into complaints against councils were uphel...

SNP Spends Just Under £400m Plugging Westminster Welfare Cuts    Tory welfare cuts since 2010 dwarf entire Scottish social security budget   SNP MSP Clare Adamson has said that Scotland is “tackling poverty with one hand ti...

Housing and Regeneration Minister Rebecca Evans has written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to warn about the impact Universal Credit is having on some of the most vulnerable people in Wales. Rebecca Evans said:  “Foodbank...

There were 27,388 individual insolvencies in Q1 2018, consisting of 16,676 individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs, 61% of the total), 6,524 debt relief orders (DROs, 24%) and 4,188 bankruptcies (15%). Individual insolvencies increased this quarter,...

In June, the National Audit Office (NAO) published its latest and most damning review of Universal Credit yet. Even by the standards of previous NAO reports on major projects that have gone awry, the report made for grim reading: hards...

Early day motion Session: 2017-19 Date tabled: 10.07.2018 Primary sponsor: Godsiff, Roger Sponsors: That this House views with concern the problems currently experienced by many vulnerable universal credit (UC) applicants, particularly...

New analysis from the Office for National Statistics published today shows that there are over half a million people in the UK experiencing the poorest levels of personal well-being. This means they have poor ratings across all four personal well-bei...

NFA and ARCH increase the pressure on government to slow down the beleaguered Universal Credit roll-out – releasing a new report outlining the significant debt burden now on tenants and landlords alike. The two organisations – together r...

Latest government figures show that the number of homeless households living in temporary accommodation has risen again. On 31 March 2018 the number of households living in temporary accommodation was 79,880 - up 3% from 77,880 on 31 March 2017 and u...

A young apprentice’s career has lift-off thanks to the loan of a moped to help him get to work. Scott Redmond, a management apprentice at the Golden Glider Café at Lasham Airfield, had been struggling to get to work but can now keep his...