We also highlighted the ‘hidden barriers’ of rent in advance requests and guarantors. Requests like 12 months’ rent in advance are shockingly common for those receiving benefits – including pensioners. The #RentersRightsBill must tackle all forms of discrimination.

🚨🧵 Failure to tackle hardship could be as damaging to Labour as the Lib Dems u-turn on tuition fees, new More in Common research for Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows. Those who voted Labour in July have high expectations the Govt will tackle hardship, but many think things are going the wrong

Reducing maximum debt deductions from Universal Credit, increasing the earnings threshold for Carers Allowance & extending the Household Support Fund are all welcome, but none really address the fundamental inadequacy of our social security system & the knock-on impact of this

This statement from Liz Kendall confirms that LHA will not increase in 2025/26 and it sounds like it won't be revisited at the Spending Review in the Spring. This actively costs poorer private renters, and will work against the govts goals to end homelessness and food bank use.

NEW microsimulation modelling from Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Following #Budget2024 and the latest OBR forecasts, we find average disposable incomes are now set to fall across the parliament. By October 2029, the average family is set to be £770/yr worse off in real terms compared with today. 1/

Budget reflections a few hours on... 🧵1/7 In her statement the Chancellor said 'change must be felt' - she's right. And it's people experiencing hardship who most need to feel it. Today's budget contained some necessary actions and some problems...

Govt’s Get Britain Working plan signals a welcome reset in approach to supporting disabled people to work. But risks being undermined by £3bn of arbitrary unspecified budget cuts & a safety net that leaves people going without essentials. Me for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Millions of people are facing hardship because Universal Credit is falling short. But it doesn't have to be this way. Together with Mind, We Care Campaign, Turn2us - Tackling Financial Insecurity Together, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and over 100 organisations, we delivered the news to the UK government that it's time to act 📰

The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers - led Sir Keir Starmer - is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is

Employment support programme will only get around 70,000 disabled people back to work out of the millions whose benefits will be cut, plunging quarter of a million into poverty and even more into worse poverty bit.ly/3SaS8w9 all grist to the backbench rebellion mill

New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis of disability benefit cuts by Parliamentary constituency and health condition. Select your constituency from drop-down menu on the chart at the following link, to see how many PIP recipients are at risk of losing out: jrf.org.uk/social-securit…

Ahead of Liz Kendall’s speech today – a quick thread on why the welfare state isn’t collapsing and why deep cuts to disability benefits aren’t the answer. (1/9)

A group of MPs call for an urgent pause to #DisabilityBenefits reform and cuts. This is the right thing to do. itv.com/news/2025-05-2…

“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM Gordon Brown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston

📣new Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis shows 3.6million children in below-average income families are going without at least 1 of: enough food, a warm home or keeping up with bills. This shocking fact speaks to the real lives at stake as briefings abound about the child poverty strategy

🚸A growing number of children are experiencing such levels of hardship that they are going without basic essentials. Ending the 2 child limit is the most cost effective way to get child poverty falling this parliament, and it’s also the right thing to do.

It's important for anyone considering this 'olive branch' to be clear that it's made from three policies which the Government already announced three months ago. (1/5)

MPs can decide for themselves whether these things offset the impact of cutting support from 3.2m people and leaving 440,000 at risk of needing to use a food bank. But it's not credible to say they represent any kind of softening of these proposals. (5/5)

NEW: A reasoned amendment to the welfare bill is being tabled by 13 Labour committee chairs as first reported by Romilly Weeks It creates a big problem for Keir Starmer & Liz Kendall with around 80 Labour MPs already backing the amendment. If selected, it would give them

Great to be at powerful Turn2us - Tackling Financial Insecurity Together report launch in Parliament today, alongside Joseph Rowntree Foundation colleagues! Our social security system should be there for all of us when we need support, and treat people with compassion, dignity and respect #StopTheStigma