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Revealed: Unemployed people on sickness benefits paid £2,500 more than minimum wage workers

A Universal Credit claimant who is not working and claims housing payments and PIP for ill health will receive £25,000 next year, according to research

Evening Standard

A New UK Report Revealed That The Gen Z Gender Pay Gap Has Reversed. Here’s Why

For the first time in ten years, the gender pay gap has reversed for Gen Z men. Experts are calling a crisis in masculinity as a response.

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Starmer ‘not doing enough to end tsunami of sick notes’ pushing up benefits claimants

Iain Duncan Smith has said far more needs to be done to prevent young people leaving school and going ‘straight to their sick beds’

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Leading think tank throws support behind Labour’s £5bn welfare cuts

‘For too long now it’s been sickness that pays,’ says CSJ

The Independent UK

‘Sickness not work has paid far too long’, warns leading thinktank after Labour’s £5bn benefit reforms

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has backed welfare cuts but warned the government is not dealing with the root causes of an over medicated population

The Independent UK

Millions Face £1,200 Benefit Cut as Rachel Reeves Pushes ‘Brutal’ Welfare Overhaul

Millions of disabled and long-term sick claimants could see their benefits slashed by as much as £1,200 a year as Rachel Reeves pushes ahead with major welfare cuts.

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Sick and disabled face being stripped of £1,200 a year each in welfare benefits as Reeves tries to balance Budget

As the OECD downgraded British growth forecasts, chancellor Rachel Reeves is still arguing over details of benefits cuts ahead of a major statement in the Commons

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New figures reveal £6 billion of unpaid council tax as lockdown and cost of living bites

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already warned she faces ‘difficult decisions’ to fill a £22 billion black hole in Britain’s public finances

The Independent UK

Poorer couples 'should have weddings paid for by state', says think tank

The Centre for Social Justice says the government should pay up to £550 towards the wedding costs of lower income couples to combat loneliness

Evening Standard

£7 billion cost of London’s violent crime surge amid ‘cycle of fear’

A quarter of those living in the capital have been attacked or threatened with violence, according to survey

Evening Standard

Calls to end ‘persecution’ of carers over UK benefits rule breaches

Thinktank calls punishments ‘cruel and nonsensical’ and says government should accept blame

The Guardian - UK

One in three parents believe the pandemic showed children do not need to go to school every day – do you agree?

Only 70% are confident that their child's needs are being met when they're in school too, and this decreases to 61% for secondary school students.

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Lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on nation’s social fabric, report says

The most disadvantaged are no better off now than at the time of the financial crash, a new report says

Evening Standard

UK government’s ‘Get Active’ plan fails to match rival report’s vision

The CSJ’s strategy for sport and physical activity simmers with possibilities absent from the government’s scheme

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Charity set up by pharma entrepreneur Dr Nik Kotecha OBE helping highlight issue of ex-prisoners finding work

Of 50,000 people leaving prison each year but just 30% have a job six months later – with many at risk of reoffending

The Independent UK

Dispute over Emiliano Sala’s transfer to Cardiff to be resolved in French courts

The 28-year-old Argentinian died in a plane crash in the English Channel in January 2019.

The Guardian - UK

Jess Phillips and Iain Duncan Smith lead calls to criminalise ‘cuckooing’

Practice of taking over people’s homes should be included in an overhaul of the Modern Slavery Act, say MPs

The Guardian - UK

Quarter of a million children enter secondary school without basic maths and English

Government set to fail target of 90% of children reaching set standard at age 11, research finds

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Daily Record

Michelle Mone’s husband in row over charity donations to firm run by ex-Tory leader IDS

Charity bankrolled by Doug Barrowman donated nearly £500,000 to Centre for Social Justice, co-founded by Iain Duncan Smith.

Birmingham Post

Bristol planning practice acquired by national property firm

CSJ has been bought by Rapleys as it seeks to bolster its planning division in the South West

Edinburgh Live

DWP Universal Credit emergency cash boost worth £700 proposed for June

The cost of living crisis is continuing to worsen for households across Scotland and the UK — and the energy price cap is set to soar by more than £800 in October

Daily Record

Iain Duncan Smith calls for DWP benefits to rise by £729 in line with inflation

The proposal would see claimants receive an average of £729 extra over the coming year and first uplift by end of next month.

Wales Online

Chancellor told to make £729 payment in June for people on Universal Credit

Experts also want an increase in how much people on Universal Credit can earn

Manchester Evening News

Calls for struggling Universal Credit claimants to be given £700 emergency cash boost amid cost of living crisis

Former Conservatives leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for benefits to be increased in line with inflation to help Brits struggling amid cost-of-living crisis

Liverpool Echo

Emergency DWP cash boost of £700 proposed from end of June for people on Universal Credit

Three options are being discussed, the other two being increasing work allowances back to their 2015 levels or bringing back a £20 a week uplift

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