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
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
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…
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 […]