Getty Images The government has confirmed major concessions to rebel Labour MPs over its planned changes to benefits. People currently receiving personal independence payment (Pip), or the health element of universal credit, will continue to do so. However, the planned cuts will still affect future claimants. What is Pip and how is it changing? Pip...
“Rent,” wrote Benjamin R. Tucker succinctly, “is the tribute paid by the non-owning user of land to the non-using owner of land.” Rent is a claim against you, asserting (implicitly) that you are extra-terrestrial or alien. It is a demand that you pay the real natives of Earth, the “owners,” a certain tribute for residing...
Part of the Series Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All As congressional Republicans muscle forward a budget bill that would strip health care away from millions of Americans, Democrats have been united in their formal opposition: No cuts to Medicaid, no cuts to SNAP, and no work eligibility requirements. “Our message...
Tiffanie Turnbull Reporting fromStreaky Bay, South Australia BBC From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor’s practice in Australia. Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins. Home to about...
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Bedfordshire Getty Images A source has told the BBC that a James Bond stunt show will be part of the new Universal park A source close to the Universal UK project has told the BBC what fans can expect from the new park being built in Bedford. James Bond, Paddington and...
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Bedfordshire Universal Studios / Comcast A new Universal theme park will be built in the UK, the government has confirmed. It will be constructed on the site of the former Kempston Hardwick brickworks near Bedford and is expected to generate 28,000 jobs before it opens in 2031. Universal estimated the 476-acre...
New research has unveiled a distressing reality for individuals relying on Universal Credit in the UK, highlighting a growing crisis of food insecurity that casts a long shadow over their well-being. Of course, amid the Labour government’s plans for £5bn of cuts to chronically ill and disabled people’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits,...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under further scrutiny regarding its handling of Universal Credit overpayments after a coalition of over 30 organisations, spearheaded by the Public Law Project, sent a letter warning of a “scandal in the making.” The alarming communication has emerged in light of significant overpayment issues that have...