Nov 18, 2024 · As recently as 4 November, the DWP was sending letters to pensioners advising them to apply for pension credit if they are eligible. Based on the most recent figures, someone applying for pension credit in early November would on average only receive their pension credit – and associated winter fuel payments – in mid-January. Payments can be backdated, but such delays would mean applicants ...

Jan 23, 2024 · This includes 4.2 million children, which is almost one in three (29%).There are also 8.1 million working-age adults and 2.1 million pensioners living in poverty. Around two in every 10 adults are in poverty in the UK, and about three in every 10 children are in poverty.

Dec 8, 2024 · Steven Frayne was born in December 1982 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He was given his stage name, Dynamo, while performing at Houdini’s centenary celebrations in 2001.

Dec 31, 2024 · Housing First is a specific support model intended for people who experience the most complex disadvantage, including long-term and repeat homelessness, physical and mental health issues, offending behaviour and substance misuse.. It gives people a home unconditionally, alongside intensive, open-ended support. In October, the government published the final evaluation report and cost benefit ...

Oct 30, 2024 · Hundreds of thousands of people with health conditions could miss out on financial support after the chancellor confirmed plans to tighten the disability benefits system.. In her autumn budget, Rachel Reeves suggested that Labour will honour proposals brought forward by the Conservative government to reform the work capability assessment.. This is an assessment which people with health ...

Dec 28, 2024 · Fallout (Prime Video) While many video-game adaptions for TV and film have fallen into the trap of focusing on fanservice ahead of writing and visuals, Fallout manages to succeed in all three.The series doesn’t shy away from its origins and instead leans into the absurdity that comes with navigating a 1950s-tinged, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.

Beat the Streets has raised more than £500,000 to help charity Framework fight homelessness in Nottingham since 2018. The unique festival brings together the entertainment and hospitality sectors to raise hope in deepest darkest January

May 6, 2024 · Change can often be slow. As we’ve seen with the abolition of no-fault evictions and leasehold reform, the glacial pace of government-led transformation leads to frustration from those affected by injustice. In its place, campaigners and activists can fill the gap. Named after the housing campaigner Sheila McKechnie, who was at the launch of the Big Issue back in 1991, the Sheila McKechnie ...

Nov 23, 2024 · Social home building hit 30,000 new homes a year during former prime minister Gordon Brown’s leadership from 2007 to 2010. However, some housing groups claim council housebuilding needs to rise to 90,000 social rent homes a year to address the UK’s shortfall of 4.3 million homes.. To counteract this, ministers want to increase the minimum amount of time tenants have lived in their social ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Penguin, £16.99) is no ordinary book with no ordinary humour.Yet its vivacious, intellectually engaged and acidly controlled bawdiness is a perfect read for this time of the year. Set during the Persian conquests of the Peloponnesian War in 412 BC, we are treated to as much tear-jerking renditions of Euripidean tragedy but a group of prisoners-of-war as we ...