The government’s 2025 Autumn Statement offered a recognition of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and included some positive steps to address it. Yet these sit alongside choices that continue to erode the foundations of a robust social security system capable of responding to that crisis. One genuinely welcome step was the decision to scrap the harmful…
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An independent review into the role of employers and government in tackling health-related economic inactivity and creating and maintaining healthy and inclusive workplaces, led by Sir Charlie Mayfield, acknowledges that ill-health and barriers to work contribute to economic inactivity. However, it engages only minimally with the social model of disability. The Review frames economic inactivity…
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The Pandemic Stories Peer Research Group add their voices to the growing calls to keep the £20 uplift to Universal Credit and extend it to legacy benefits. Since June 2020, Toynbee Hall and Thrive LDN have been supporting Londoners to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on their financial health and wellbeing. The group…
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