85% of benefits claimants feel an institutional stigma The actuality of living on benefits is often far removed from what the general public assumes. The increase of so-called ‘poverty-porn’ on TV has further embedded benefits...
New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost half (48%) of low income households are not claiming the welfare benefits and tax credits they could be entitled to. This is despite the...
Chris Kelsey writing for Wales Online: A former chapel is to become Wales’ first ‘social supermarket’ offering cut price goods to people on benefits. Trinity Chapel in Abertillery will be transformed after being rescued by...
The benefits system is “no longer providing an adequate safety net” for the poorest families, with “devastating effects” for vulnerable youngsters, a children’s charity is warning. In a report on recent changes to the welfare...
The Guardian writes that one of the most insidious myths about “welfare” – an Americanism that has come to supplant the more descriptive “social security” – is that it is a lifestyle choice. It is...
Several newspapers today are running the story of a Roma gypsy who is using £60,000 of British handouts to build a mansion in his own country. Scrap metal dealer Ion Lazar plans to pay for...
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