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Benefits

August 2024

  • Stand in their kitchen, his arm over her shoulder

    ‘I can’t stand being cold’: older people on losing winter fuel payments

  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing<br>Shadow of a child on a playground swing - stock photo

    I have three daughters. These are the ways the two-child benefit limit affects us every single day

    Anonymous

31 July 2024

  • King Charles III and Queen Camilla after the state opening of parliament earlier this month

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Uk politics: Voters want MPs to swear allegiance to their constituents, not to king, poll suggests – as it happened

    Polling for the Republic campaign group says only 11% of voters want MPs to pledge allegiance to the monarch
  • A hand turning a thermostat with a penny in the middle of the dial

    Many pensioners can’t afford to lose the winter fuel allowance

    Letters: Readers criticise the decision of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to limit the payment to those on pension credits
  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

    Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty

30 July 2024

  • Person reading energy bill

    What are winter fuel payments and who will lose and keep them?

    Rachel Reeves announced that the payments to pensioners will no longer be universal in England and Wales

29 July 2024

  • Conor Thackray, one of the carers who spoke to the Guardian, outside his home.

    The Guardian view on supporting carers: flawed rules around allowances must be fixed

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

28 July 2024

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

    Carer’s allowance ‘cliff edge’ means it has to be paid back if a penny is earned over threshold. Carers tell their stories
  • Montage for of people including Stephen Timms

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

    Changes will be complex and expensive, but so is the moral and economic cost of not resolving this sorry tale of misery and injustice

    • Carer's allowance crisis
      Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

    • The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

    • ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

25 July 2024

  • Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

  • Small boy playing in a park

    Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

  • A graffiti sign reading 'food bank' on a wall as a man walks by

    Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

24 July 2024

  • John McDonnell speaking in parliament

    Labour will be pushed to axe two-child benefit cap, says John McDonnell

    Former shadow chancellor claims rebellion a genuine point of conscience, not a coordinated attack on government
  • John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Ian Byrne, Zarah Sultana.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s rebellion: removing the whip is a step too far

    Editorial: A continuous demonstration of intra-party unity and loyalty to the party leader won’t solve Britain’s problems
  • Keir Starmer stands and speaks in the House of Commons during his first Prime Minister's Questions as prime minister, Wednesday 24 July; his ministers are seen on the bench behind him

    Keir Starmer’s show of force sends message to his backbenchers

    By removing whip from seven MPs, PM makes clear that he is not about to abandon his ruthless mode of operating
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