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A sanction is a reduction in the amount of JSA which would otherwise be payable.  Sanctions imposed on thousands of benefit claimants for not taking part in the DWP’s so-called “back-to-work” schemes are unlawful; a court ruled...

More than 19,000 council tax support claimants in London faced bailiff action in the financial year 2015/16 a recent report has shown. Councils are aggressively pursuing impoverished tenants struggling to make ends meet causing massive dist...

The rising cost of rented housing could turn out to be the greatest social challenge of the 2020s. By the end of the next decade say the Fabian Society, one in four households are likely to be private tenants and many will not be able to afford rent...

Theresa May rules out second EU referendum as cabinet meets at Chequers. The facts are: the UK must keep most EU workers or face jobs crisis: A new Brexit impact assessment by the House of Commons shows there are at least 2.2 million n...

The Trussell Trust has opened their 50th foodbank in Scotland – showing the grim result of Tory austerity and welfare cuts.   The charity, the largest provider of food parcels in the country, issued more than 130,000 supplies of food in 20...

British consumer confidence recovers (slightly) post-BREXIT: Consumer confidence in Britain rose in August, according to a survey by research firm Gfk, though it still recovered its second-lowest level in over two years. The ...

The Disability News service has reported that paralympians heading to Rio next week have lost their Motability vehicles after being reassessed as part of the government’s programme of benefit cuts and reforms, a member of the ParalympicsGB team...

A WOMAN whose life has been turned upside down by a rare condition feels she is being punished after having her benefits cut. Julie Knight, from Pontrobert, was diagnosed four years ago with narcolepsy which causes her to fall asleep, and cataplexy,...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite finally admitting that seven of them relate to people who took their own lives. DWP only released the information afte...

Antony Jay, co-writer of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, aged 86. Wonderful program.