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Growing numbers of people are using food banks to feed themselves and their families. But many areas where residents face a high risk of food poverty are under-serviced.
Thousands queued to buy the report by William Beveridge that would lay the foundations for Britain’s modern welfare state.
The government may be backing tech innovation, but it doesn’t mean Govcoin gets a free pass into the heart of civic life.
Academics deliver their verdict on Philip Hammond.
It was meant to provide a more streamlined and coherent system – but it isn’t working.
The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
Designed to ease budgetry pressures, households in Scotland on Universal Credit can now opt for a fortnightly payment instead of being paid monthly.
Means-tested benefits are designed to ensure a minimum standard of living for Britain’s poorest families.
While the government’s opponents rage about benefits being cut, claims on what remains are often barely 50% of those entitled.
From April, single parents will have to look for work when their youngest child turns three.
Fewer than half a million people are currently receiving the new, simplified benefit according to newly released data.
Plans to stop universal credit payments in favour of a ‘national living wage’ will not address the long-standing poverty of many people in paid employment.
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Research fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Social Work, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Emeritus Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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LSE Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Associate, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), Loughborough University
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Research Assistant, Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit, University of Salford
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent
