Links: Disability benefits paid “without checks”? The statistics debunked
Ruth Barnett writes about the Department for Work and Pensions press release with a particularly nastily-spun statistic (bold in original): “The vast majority (94%) of new claimants got the benefit...
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Sharing a room with her four year old disabled son, Brenda*, a single mother from Ladywood, is just one of the 37,000 households in Birmingham living in congested conditions, making the West Midlands...
View ArticleSavage times, but food banks act to put bread on the table
Many supermarket customers dropped food donations into Tesco trolleys over the weekend for those UK people struggling with food poverty. The traditional habit of feeding the birds snippets seems to be...
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