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7 October 2020
Film: 'Sick' - 'They've got people looking in the wrong direction'
'Sick' is a heart-wrenching drama/documentary that uses the real stories of benefit claimants battling, and sometimes losing to, the system to claim Personal Independence Payment, and also work capability assessments for Employment Support Allowance.
30 September 2020
PCS: No to DWP management's plans - Yes to action
PCS union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are reacting furiously to management's rush to book appointments in all the Jobcentres, a move especially targeted at 18-to-24 year olds
8 July 2020
Jobcentre reopening: only union struggle will put safety first
Jobcentres have become the latest battleground between workers' desire to work in safety and employers' desire to reopen services, ready or not.
1 July 2020
Benefits system being used to force return to unsafe workplaces
As previously reported in the Socialist, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which oversees the payment of unemployment benefit to millions, had previously eased the requirements for claiming Universal Credit
31 March 2020
Fight for safety, staffing and services - Covid chaos for benefits claimants
More than half a million claims to working-age benefits such as Jobseekers' Allowance and Universal Credit have been made in the last two weeks
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.
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.
1 May 2019
Build a universal safety net - abolish Universal Credit!
Thousands of Universal Credit claimants are not getting the money they are entitled to - and desperately need - without even knowing.
13 March 2019
Tories out. Scrap Universal Credit. Fight for living wages and welfare!
Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
20 February 2019
Claimants and union slam Universal Credit
On 24 January, a public meeting by Haringey Against Universal Credit was attended by about 100 people.
20 February 2019
Universal Credit staff ballot for action
The possibility of strike action on 11-12 March is on the cards at Walsall and Wolverhampton Universal Credit service centres. The ballot finishes on 25 February.
12 December 2018
Universal Credit Christmas misery
The shocking effects of Universal Credit have been revealed by the ordeal faced by one mother this Christmas.
28 November 2018
Nat West's benefit-claimant eviction policy
Nat West bank made an ultimatum to a Belfast landlord seeking to remortgage their buy-to-let flat - either evict your vulnerable older tenant or seek a mortgage elsewhere.
28 November 2018
Scrap the Tories' Universal Credit now!
New Tory Department for Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, of Windrush-scandal notoriety, hailed Universal Credit (UC) as a "tremendous force for good". It's been so good that in her constituency, food bank use went up by 87% in Hastings in the year following UC roll-out.
28 November 2018
End "poverty, ill health and despair":a benefits adviser speaks out against the cuts
I have worked, since leaving college - 22 years - solely in benefits. I have witnessed the systematic destruction of a support system meant to help those who need it most, creating a widespread situation
21 November 2018
Housing arrears double, suicide risk soars - scrap Universal Credit!
General election now to reverse welfare attacks: Universal Credit claimants are being pushed into serious mental health problems, with some even considering suicide, according to public health researchers in the North East.
17 October 2018
Universal credit = universal misery
Theresa May said 'the end of austerity is in sight'
25 July 2018
Universal credit causes £24m rent arrears
The inept Tory government is yet again in the firing line after further details emerged about the shambolic roll-out of the cruel 'universal credit' welfare system
11 July 2018
Minister's benefits lie: sack the Tories - and scrap universal credit
Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey arrogantly refuses to step down, after admitting to "inadvertently" misleading MPs about problems with the already unpopular 'universal credit' welfare restructure.
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