4)But single parents do not feel they are provided with tailored support that takes account of the unique combination of challenges facing them. Data from Welfare at a Social Distance project shows single parent benefit recipients report more negative experiences than others on such issues.

Digital exclusion is creating a ‘two-tier’ system for people claiming benefits bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Our Welfare at a Social Distance comic was turned into a #LSEFestival short 🎬📽️ Focusing on lessons we can take forward from social security claimants during the pandemic - inc. - adequacy matters! (with guest voiceovers from Daniel Edmiston & Prof Lisa Scullion 😮) youtube.com/watch?v=mLCWpv…

Are you interested in analysing new survey data on benefits claimants 2020-2022? Then look at the new Welfare at a (Social) Distance data deposit - more info at jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jis…

For a detailed account of the barriers that people with learning disabilities face in the benefits system, read Neil Carpenter 's new book Benefits on Trial - a short summary at citizen-network.org/library/dwp-on… and you can find the book at citizen-network.org/store/benefits…

Congratulations to Prof Lisa Scullion and the Welfare at a Social Distance team, who have been shortlisted in this year's Times Higher Education awards! ⭐ #THEAwards Read more ⬇️ salford.ac.uk/news/salford-s…

With the political landscape changing at a dizzying speed, Daniel Edmiston and I have tried to give a slightly wider view on benefit uprating and the need to recentre focus on adequacy and meeting need. The Conversation theconversation.com/raising-benefi…

"People often think that benefit levels are related to meeting some level of minimum need, but this is not the case. The last, and only, official assessment of benefits adequacy was undertaken in the 1960s, and it had little effect on subsequent policy." bit.ly/3N5lRTV

Long Covid Support M Yes coproduced research but need to remove barriers for people eg with #LongCovid in receipt of #Benefits U.K. #DWP as there are complex rules + processes that are #EnergyDrainAdmin , not fit for purpose, risk to income #ESA Margaret O'Hara Welfare at a Social Distance Peter Beresford Dr Anita Atwal

Should we talk about 'social security' instead of 'welfare'? Some new evidence inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/sho…

📢📢We are launching 📢📢 *Social Security Soundings* today. It's a website that features 18 women discussing the question "What is social security for?" sssoundings.org

So the Welfare at a Social Distance Kate Summers team used new data to unpack this in an IPPR article and found that a clear majority of Britons (61%) think that benefit payments are insufficient to alleviate even basic subsistence poverty:

New paper from our project: ‘Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity’ in ⁦Journal of Social Policy⁩ cambridge.org/core/journals/…