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My The Guardian story: Unpaid carer threatened with prosecution for fraud after inadvertently breaching career's allowance benefit earnings rules has a £1,300 penalty waived by DWP after the Guardian covered her case theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

Labour’s Abdi Mohamed elected as Councillor for Bow East Tower Hamlets Labour Group Abdi Mohamed romanroadlondon.com/labour-abdi-mo…

'A culture of concealment that started at the top' A deeper look into what the Grenfell Inquiry report said about the tower's social housing provider. Not a pretty read: insidehousing.co.uk/insight/a-cult…

One of great things about Abdi Mohamed's election was GMB London Region's strong support. Back in 2006 it was GMB stalwart + local resident John Onslow, who helped me, Ahmed & Alex win after 30 years of Lib Dem cllrs in Bow. No doubt he'd be really proud to see Cllr Abdi too!

The DWP has just published its Equality Analysis of winter fuel payment cuts (yes, on Friday night). Around 71% of pensioners with a disability and 83% of the over-80s will lose the benefit. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66e479bf…

15 constituents in my advice surgery today, including one Clarion tenant who is having to be decanted out of her home for the 2nd time this year because of its failure to resolve another leak. Meanwhile the Housing Regulator claims to the Minister there is no problem with Clarion

Marc Francis Tom Murtha. Retired. Tower Hamlets Labour Group KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner Peter Apps Politics London Nicola Ford Jackie Long Daniel Hewitt Uma Kumaran MP EastLondonLines I am also dealing with a Clarion tenant in Newham - wanting to evict a vulnerable woman . Shameful behaviour

Marc Francis Abdi Mohamed GMB London Region GMB Politics Warren Kenny GMB Politics London GMB Councillors Network GMB Union Dean Gilligan Tower Hamlets Labour Group Uma Kumaran MP Unmesh Desai AM Oona King John Onslow was a spectacular man, that I was honoured to know, a proper trade unionist and perfect gentleman. I am also privileged to have worked with Abdi and I’m very sure that John would have loved to have known him.

Ann and Albert are disabled pensioners whose conditions mean they need to spend more on heating and electricity. They gave their moving account of the human cost of losing the winter fuel payment to BBC Money Box’s Dan Whitworth this weekend bit.ly/4d99rWi

🏙️ Today is my BBC London’ Politics London debut - thanks for having me on Frankie McCamley. 📺 Watch it live on BBC One from 10am.

Following the publication of the Renters Rights Bill I will be speaking on a panel with others from the Renters' Reform Coalition next Sunday 3.30 at Labour conference about ‘how should Labour fix the renting crisis’ if you’re around come along!

Reminder: 48 hours till the NEC ballot closes. Please check my record at annblack.co.uk and whichever other slates you support, vote #1 Ann Black for continuing accountability, loyalty and independence. Thank you 🌹🌹🌹

📖 NEW ARTICLE | Labour Conference 2024: What’s going on for housing? We have assembled the definitive summary of housing activities at the upcoming Labour Party Conference. With 49 housing events and counting, Conference will be busier than ever! redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/09/labour…

Hundreds of millions of pounds of profit are being extracted from children's homes by private equity and other owners. This week’s The Rest is Money podcast is a special episode on the disastrous deterioration of support for families in crisis and the escalating scandal of

Nearly, 9,000 older people in Tower Hamlets don't get Pension Credit and so will now lose their Winter Fuel Payment. Like Sonia, many of those are just above the income threshold 'cos of small work pensions. I hope delegates at Labour conference will demand the WFP is reinstated

Marc Francis Tom Murtha. Retired. Tower Hamlets Labour Group KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner Peter Apps Politics London Nicola Ford Jackie Long Daniel Hewitt Uma Kumaran MP EastLondonLines Marc Francis Matthew Pennycook MP Uma Kumaran MP There is SO much wrong with Clarion in Stratford and Bow (and probably nationally), both in social housing, shared ownership and private ownership. Our block has had no end of problems. Clarion Housing Group continually fail to address them.

I'm engrossed in Iwan Morgan's biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Its incredible how much was done in his first 100 days to get America's economy out of depression + protect its poorest citizens. This should be mandatory reading for all Labour Ministers. #RealDealNewDeal

This is why planning regulations are good. I’ve seen too many new builds thrown up that just years later are in pieces. What’s worse is that S106 blocks are often bought by Housing Associations who can’t keep track and then take on faulty blocks.

Coverage of our new briefing with Shelter and Women's Aid on the devastating impact the benefit cap is having on survivors of domestic abuse and families with children. theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

Around 300,000 children - equivalent to the population of over 1000 primary schools - live in homes affected by the Benefit Cap. As well as the cruel two-child limit, we also need to push for its sister policy - the Benefit Cap - to go Me for Guardian Opinion