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Universal credit

July 2024

  • illustration of family with five children sitting around a dinner table

    ‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap

    As Labour backbenchers call for Keir Starmer to scrap the cap, families reveal their struggles as a result of the two-child limit
  • A football lying on the ground in a playground, with children playing in the background, out of focus

    Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

    Campaigners say figure is shameful and that Tory policy is single biggest driver of child poverty
  • A woman pushes a pram with a child past a polling station during the general election in Northallerton, 4 July.

    Tell us: have you been affected by the UK’s two-child limit on universal credit?

    We want to hear from people in the UK hit by the two-child limit on their experiences

June 2024

  • Labour Party Launch General Election Manifesto<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JUNE 13: Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer poses with Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (L), Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader (2nd R) and his shadow cabinet as Labour launch their general election manifesto on June 13, 2024 in Manchester, United Kingdom. Labour is consistently leading the polls by over 20 points, according to the latest YouGov data. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

    Put the security back into social security

  • Illustration of an open tin of beans

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Britain became a food bank nation

  • Four primary school children photographed from behind, sitting at desks in a classroom

    Two-child benefit cap is ‘key driver of child poverty’ in UK, research suggests

  • Universal credit section of the Gov.uk website on an iPad resting on a wooden table

    Half of universal credit claimants ‘lose money through automatic DWP deductions’

May 2024

  • Lonely little boy looking out of the window

    The two-child benefit cap in the UK is unfair and doesn’t work

    Bishop of Leicester
  • Gordon Brown

    Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

    Gordon Brown

April 2024

  • Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for PMQs.

    The Guardian view on disability, illness and work: there is no ‘sicknote culture’ in Britain

  • Rishi Sunak stands at a podium at the Centre for Social Justice.

    Sunak accused of making mental illness ‘another front in the culture wars’

  • Two children playing on a fence

    The Guardian view on universal credit: raising the level of benefits must be the priority

  • Universal credit sign on an automatic door

    Thousands of disabled people ‘will get £2,800 a year less under universal credit’

  • Leak reveals Tory plan to cut cold weather cash for disabled people

  • UK state pensions and benefits: what do the changes in April mean for you?

  • Labour urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty

March 2024

  • Gordon Brown

    Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

    Gordon Brown
  • Department of Work and Pensions offices in London.

    Coroner criticises benefits rules after vulnerable claimant’s death

  • Deliveries to a food bank in Thurrock, Essex: two men in high-vis vests unload green crates of provisions from a truck and on to a trolley outside a food bank warehouse

    Extension to support fund only a temporary fix for poorest families, warn charities

  • Mother and young child looking out of window

    Single parents on benefits being ‘punished’ by Tory policy pushing them to work 30-hour week

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