For some veterans, the benefits assessment process can be re-traumatising.
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A trauma-informed approach could be life-changing for a wide range of vulnerable claimants – not just veterans.
The growth plan will require thousands more workers on universal credit to search for more work or face sanctions.
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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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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
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Although Rishi Sunak is extending the weekly £20 uplift, the government has missed an opportunity to given the benefits system the overhaul it needs
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Spare a thought for Britain’s veterans navigating the minefield that is the UK’s benefits system.
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Social housing providers can help people get into work, with tailored, long-term support.
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The system of welfare conditionality that underpins Universal Credit is ineffective at moving people off social security and into work.
Rob from Harwick, Stockton-on-Tees, where life expectancy is low, spoke to BBC Panorama about health inequalities.
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In a developed country like the UK, why can life expectancy within just a few miles differ by as much as 18 years?
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A study has revealed how former Armed Forces personnel can get ignored and mistreated by an unsympathetic social security system.
On the edge.
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Unemployment levels are low, but many people are being pushed into inadequately paid jobs by a punitive benefit system and lack of choice.
Desolation: why are all these houses empty?
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London is about to experience a residential building boom the like of which the capital hasn’t experienced in decades. According to a report from New London Architecture there are more than 230 new high-rise…