An excited Beauty casts her first vote in the London Mayorals. #DogsAtPollingStations

The bar is already v.high for PIP. You have to show that e.g you cannot wash, dress, get food or go to treatment without prompting/assistance. You can't get PIP for a mild Mental Health condition. 1/2
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💬 “Voters up and down the country want to hear what the next government will do to tackle plummeting living standards.'

Falling inflation doesn’t mean this problem is over.

Read more from our Clare Moriarty in the The Guardian ⤵️
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Analysis of 150 migrant care workers who have come to Citizens Advice for help has found widespread labour abuses.

These key workers have faced significant abuse or exploitation. Many of the problems stem from issues in the Health & Care Worker visa.

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Evidence has been mounting that carers who come to the UK on the health & care visa are being subjected to exploitation & fraud.

We can now reveal this is in large part due to a visa design that punishes workers for whistleblowing🧵

CW:references to rape
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Today we’re launching our new Spotlight Reports 🔍

We’ll be highlighting emerging issues and persistent problems that our advisers are seeing.

Sign-up to receive Spotlight Reports and see what the frontline is telling us ⤵️
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Debt Relief Order fees = scrapped in #Budget2024

Great to see this change, which we've been talking to HM Treasury a lot in recent years. Scrapping the £90 fee ends such an obvious contradiction in the debt relief system - forcing people in debt to pay upfront to get out of it

Good news on the Household Support Fund but just six months and still lots of problems with the fund as stands - wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/the-cost-of-li…

⚠️ Changes to the Energy Price Cap mean the average annual household energy bill will be £1,690 if paid by direct debit.

This isn't a cap. Your bill could be higher or lower depending on how much energy you use.

Find out more about your energy tariff ⤵️
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'I was recently working with a man whose mother was in a hospice. He couldn’t afford the bus, so every day until she died he walked a six-mile round trip to see her'.

At CitizensAdvice our frontline advisers know the CoL crisis is not easing.
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Sign up to our next Data Insights event with Polly Toynbee and Dr Tim Leunig.

We will be sharing our data insights on negative budgets, a key measure of hardship and the policies that will help millions out of the red.
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I spoke to BBC Money Box about the impact local funding challenges is having on local CitizensAdvice services. Moneybox visited Citizens Advice Mansfield to speak to specialist adviser Jodie and also Mark, one of the 2,500 people they helped last year (1/2)

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It’s vital the government considers the devastating knock-on impacts of local authority funding cuts on community services like ⁦CitizensAdvice⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

5 million people are in a negative budget.

They don’t have enough money coming in to cover their expenses and they’re building up debt and cutting back or going without essentials to get by... 🧵