On 15 May, the Government started making it harder for couples to claim Pension Credit and Parkinson’s UK estimate it could impact on hundreds of people with Parkinson’s. Many will see a loss of around £7,300 a year.
A photo taken by the Liverpool Echo emerged in February that showed a skeletal Stephen Smith sitting in a hospital gown, his spine protruding from his six-stone frame. He had just had his disability benefits stopped.
Young people are joining actor and Children’s Future Food Inquiry ambassador Dame Emma Thompson at the Westminster launch of the inquiry’s final report, which calls for urgent political action on child food insecurity.
PM May must take action to ensure food shortages and inflation in event of a no-deal Brexit do not affect vulnerable people, major charities have said.
Since February 2017, the Independent Food Aid Network’s Sabine Goodwin has been working to identify independent food banks providing food parcels outside of the Trussell Trust network throughout the UK.
The survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are calling on the government to overhaul the way social housing is regulated and set up a powerful watchdog that could jail negligent housing managers.
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