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3 November 2021
Tory Universal Credit crumbs no solution to cost of living crisis
The £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit has left 4.4 million households around £1,000 a year worse off.
6 October 2021
Tories plunge millions further into poverty
£6 billion has been ripped from the hands of working-class people through the removal of the £20 Universal Credit uplift
22 September 2021
Tory cuts to UC: we need a union fightback
From 6 October Universal Credit will be cut by £20 per week
15 September 2021
The government doesn't seem to want to budge on removing the £1,000 a year uplift
20 January 2021
Make the super-rich pay, not the poorest
In the last week the real number of deaths from Covid has gone over 100,000, and the UK has recorded the highest per capita death toll in the world
16 December 2020
No surprise, poverty is rising
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 2.4 million, including half a million children, experienced "destitution" in 2019 - before coronavirus reached the UK
2 December 2020
What will the spending review mean for me?
Five Socialist Party members respond to the spending review, and what it means for youth, pensioners, schools, councils and those out of work.
28 October 2020
Don't let Tories starve our kids
Big business got billions - Fight for what we need:
2 October 2020
A review of Channel 4 series 'Council House Britain'
2 September 2020
Between February and June 2020 the number of claims for Universal Credit doubled
5 August 2020
PCS union: Reject longer DWP opening hours
The government's headlong rush to pretend things are getting back to normal is impacting on PCS members working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
18 March 2020
PCS union demands better deal for benefits claimants
The government has announced new support for claimants who contract, or have to stay at home due to, Covid-19
12 February 2020
New BBC series - Insight or whitewash?
The BBC programme 'Universal Credit: inside the welfare state' is a series of three programmes on the highly criticised benefit system.
12 February 2020
Cesar Zanin, a part-time NHS worker living in temporary accommodation and bringing up a six-year-old daughter, didn't know where their next meal was coming from after the DWP stopped his Universal Credit without warning
4 September 2019
Austerity anger feeds movement for Welsh independence
In the second of our series of articles exploring Brexit and the 'national question' Dave Reid secretary of the Socialist Party in Wales examines the situation there.
31 July 2019
The Tories sold Universal Credit as a public money-saving scheme, combining several benefits into one. In reality the 'savings' were to come from reducing payouts.
17 July 2019
Fraudsters thrive and claimants suffer in despicable Universal Credit scam
Thousands of people on Universal Credit have been left up to £1,500 worse off following a criminal scam where fraudsters obtain personal details of vulnerable claimants.
26 June 2019
Universal Credit forces women into prostitution
A Tory minister has been forced to retract an official statement that there was no link between Universal Credit and people being pushed into to the sex trade to survive
5 June 2019
Universal Credit workers' strike
Benefit processing workers in Walsall and Wolverhampton have been leading the way in the fightback against Universal Credit.
22 May 2019
Short stories of workplace struggles including DWP and blood courier strikes and the NSSN conference.
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