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Tag: Universal Credit

Boris Johnson’s planned cuts to Universal Credit to affect 5.7 million families

Posted on 26th January 202125th January 2021 by Jess Tait

Boris Johnson has caused controversy following his plan to cut Universal Credit by £20-a-week in April despite criticism from Labour and Red Wall Tories in his own party. The government had previously increased Universal Credit […]

Food Should Be Made More Affordable on Campus

Posted on 10th March 202029th June 2020 by Séamus O'Hanlon

The news that Leeds Beckett University has opened up a foodbank for students who have to pay up to eighty per cent of outgoings on rent is damning evidence that austerity and its destructive consequences […]

Sex to Survive: Women Pushed to the Brink

Posted on 18th November 201918th November 2019 by Ellie Dyer

On 25 October 2019, the Work and Pensions Committee published a report linking Universal Credit to ‘survival sex’. Survival sex, as explained in the report, is when someone is forced to turn to sex work […]

Universal Credit more like Universal Car Crash…

Posted on 26th October 20181st April 2019 by Dmitry Fedoseev

You may recall that in 2013, the coalition government launched a controversial new welfare policy: Universal Credit. It was designed to ‘simplify’ the current benefits system, which over 80% of the public at the time […]

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