Requiring low-paid, part-time workers to increase their hours or take on multiple jobs can have adverse physical and mental health impacts.
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The Way to Work scheme will increase the pressure of benefits sanctions, which is particularly damaging for women and mothers.
Evidence shows that benefits sanctions push people into worse jobs, with long term negative effects.
New research shows how the UK welfare system can worsen mental health problems.
Defensive responses on Twitter from the Department of Work and Pensions to the Channel 4 series Skint Britain appear tone-deaf.
The concept of Universal Credit reveals something wider about the UK’s current political fixation on debt.
The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
From April, single parents will have to look for work when their youngest child turns three.
New ONS data indicate that the UK’s poorest households are doing better and the richest are worse off. But this isn’t the full picture.
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Social Work, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Research fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
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PhD Candidate and Research and Policy Officer at Law Centre NI, Ulster University
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
