What impact will rising fuel prices have on fuel poverty? How many households are spending ever greater proportions of their income on fuel? And who will be worst affected?
Frances Ryan, Welfare Rights Worker at CPAG in Scotland, takes a look at ‘adult disability payment’ (ADP), a new disability benefit for working-age people who live in Scotland.
A briefing for the debate in the Scottish Parliament: Progress on the Automation and Take-up of Scottish Social Security Benefits, looking at the importance of data sharing for automation, and the importance of universalism for take-up.
Child Poverty Action Group, Age UK and Save the Children have produced a joint briefing on the importance of uprating all benefits and the state pension in line with inflation.
A year like no other charts the ups and downs of family life on a low income during the unprecedented times of Covid 19. We (participants and researchers from the Covid Realities research project) wrote the book to show how hard life was and the change we need to see.
The UK government’s benefit cap, two child limit and young parent penalty all undermine Scotland’s national child poverty mission. They hurt the very families rightly identified as ‘priority groups’ in the Scottish government’s child poverty plan. Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, One Parent Families Scotland and The Poverty Alliance have organised a fringe meeting at the SNP conference to discuss the impact on children and families and discuss how the policies can be challenged at Westminster, and their effects mitigated by Holyrood and local government.
Removing the cap would mean an additional £65 a week, on average, in the pockets of capped households, meaning an average capped couple with 2 children would be £85 below the poverty line.