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Most Universal Credit payments have increased this year. However, if you are unable to work and making a new claim, the amount you receive may be lower than it was previously.
Find out more⬇️
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#SingleParents #Scotland #LCWRA #UniversalCredit #UKBenefits
Universal Credit is changing today, moving from £92 to £98 per week.
While we welcome any increase, the gap between "allowance" and "actual costs" remains a daily struggle for many in #Norwich.
We believe everyone deserves to afford the essentials 🤝💚
#NorwichCommunity #UniversalCredit #EndHunger
RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116347294615028934
@rbreich recognises the need for #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UBI4ALL #UniversalCredit #BasicIncome #RentaMinima #IMV 🤩 as thousands of jobs have already been replaced by #AI! 🤬
#HumanRights
Could you be missing out on unclaimed benefits? 💸
The welfare system is there to support you when times are tough, but nevertheless, many people still don’t realise what help they can get.
https://bit.ly/3NNSkmx
#Benefits #UnclaimedBenefits #UniversalCredit
‘The five-week wait needs "urgent attention", says David Mendes da Costa, principle policy manager at Citizens Advice charity. “ #UniversalCredit is meant to be a safety net, not to trap people in debt from day one, but that's exactly the situation our advisers see every single day."’ 2.
BBC’s Michael Buchanan: ‘In order to mimic work, particularly monthly salaried employment, new claimants have to wait five weeks for their first payment. But many low-income households don't have the savings to last that long and so have to borrow, incurring debt.’ 1/ #UniversalCredit
It starts in April. Disabled people will lose Universal Credit support if their condition MIGHT improve. It was always the plan — I told you about it last year - now it’s happening.
#UniversalCredit #DisabilityRights #WelfareCuts #DWP #UKPolitics #TheWhipLine
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𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, the health element of #UniversalCredit - will be halved to £𝟱𝟬 a week and frozen for new claimants, 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 their condition is found to be terminal or severe and lifelong with no prospect of improvement.
1/2: The Guardian: Welfare benefit reforms – changes to the health element of Universal Credit
Read more on the blog: https://meassociation.org.uk/wbta
#MECFS #LongCovid #UniversalCredit #pwME
@meassociation.org.uk
Good quotes from my 'soft spot' charity here (I worked for them for 24 years!) | The Guardian | 29 March 2026:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#mecfs #MyalgicEncephlomyelitis #Benefit #wefarerights #universalcredit #TimmsReview
#TheNarrowPath
All the money I have to my name.
I have groceries enough for one small meal a day, a snack and a couple of chocolate biscuits of an evening between now and the 5th of April.
#VirginMoney
#UniversalCredit
#TheFineTunedUniverse
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Research highlights small jobs impact of extra DWP support, just as ministers use it to justify cuts
#DWP #UniversalCredit
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Claimants face ‘destitution’ over failure of universal credit migration safeguards, letter warns minister
#ESA #UniversalCredit
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Two-child benefit cap scrapped. 🧡
Since April 2017, parents have only been able to claim child tax credit or universal credit for a maximum of two children per household.
https://bit.ly/41eyrbd
#UniversalCredit #TwoChildCap #RachelReeves
Image from the UC CREATIVES mixed media gallery: https://www.uccreatives.co.uk/our-gallery
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In our new ‘Public Health Research and Me’ Fuse podcast 🎙️ Mel and PJ speak to @cherylblake-ebe.bsky.social about how UC Creatives uses art and lived experience to empower voices and highlight the impact of #UniversalCredit on #MentalHealth and wellbeing.
Listen now 🎧
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Easter bank holidays may affect your benefit payments. 💰
The easter weekend is just around the corner - and that could affect when your benefit payments will arrive.
https://bit.ly/4beBsyb
#Benefits #UniversalCredit #BankHoliday
Emergency free school transport could help Flintshire families under benefits sanctions according to service review.
www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2593474...
#Flintshire #schooltransport #Universalcredit #benefitssanctions #LDReporter
Emergency free school transport proposal could help Flintshire families under benefits sanctions.
www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2593474...
#Flintshire #schooltransport #Universalcredit #benefitssanctions
Could digital ID make claiming benefits easier? 🔍
The government wants to introduce a new digital ID, so people can log on to just one app to prove who they are.
https://bit.ly/4s9Ksuy
#Benefits #DigitalId #UniversalCredit
I am v #sorry to #universalcredit if I rushed into accusing them of making me submit 4months expenses, if they originally had the requirement to submit 4expenses only, as well as the 4months, on my account. I am not sure if it was changed or not. #Julia #juliawilkinson
In fact I now c its unclear what #universalcredit r asking me for. In one place it appears 2suggest,as i wrote b4, that i need to submit all my expenses for 4months; in another place its just asking for 4specific expenses I was originally asked for. Its probably the latter, I see. Im asking. #Julia
I told #Universalcredit about last yr or yr be4, long message that I don't have any carers,I've never properly had carers (except lady who broughtmeup kept visiting me 4few yrs&helped in e20s when I had badback). They wrote they didn't have2respond. I bet loads pple get fraudulent dosh4this. #julia
Very much on topic. Fascism is colonialism come home. This is the imperial boomerang.
#UC #UniversalCredit
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Pending cuts to #UniversalCredit for disabled people are terrifying. Already advising families who will see much bigger drops in income when young adults they care for claim UC for first time from April. 'Severe conditions criteria' may not apply to many. It's a scary time.
𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦: ILR holders make up only about 𝟮.𝟳% of all #UniversalCredit claimants, with just around a third of those in employment!
1/ The UK's benefit sanctions regime is causing harm to those most vulnerable.
In a report published by PLP at the end of last year, drawing on casework from 100+ sanctioned people and analysis of DWP data, we found the #UniversalCredit sanctions system is failing on its own terms.
Why you shouldn’t ignore your universal credit ‘migration’ letter. 📝
The government is moving everyone on older ‘legacy’ benefits on to universal credit - a single payment that combines several types of financial support.
https://bit.ly/4avON4P
#Benefits #UniversalCredit #DWP
How To Improve The UK: Welfare
7. Repeal the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payment Act in its entirety. People seeking employment would be given a job under our new Job Guarantee programme, and the disabled will be supported with...
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#universalcredit #jobguarantee #uk
