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People with severe mental illness twice as likely to be disconnected by utility companies
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Mental health

People with severe mental illness twice as likely to be disconnected by utility companies

More than half of people in utility arrears are experiencing some kind of mental health problem, new analysis from Martin Lewis' Money and Mental Health Policy Institute shows
Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay
Cost of living crisis

Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay

I was trafficked and forced to work 23 hours a day. How was I meant to return to normality?
Modern slavery

I was trafficked and forced to work 23 hours a day. How was I meant to return to normality?

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle
Renting

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle

Donald Trump's import tariffs could 'completely destabilise' UK's car industry
Donald Trump

Donald Trump's import tariffs could 'completely destabilise' UK's car industry

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
DWP ordered to correct 'entirely misleading' claim about universal credit claimants looking for work
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Benefits

DWP ordered to correct 'entirely misleading' claim about universal credit claimants looking for work

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people
Four people stand around an electric van
Homelessness

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people

This is the devastating impact growing up in temporary accommodation has on children’s GCSE results
school children at desks
Education

This is the devastating impact growing up in temporary accommodation has on children’s GCSE results

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about
DWP, benefits
Social Justice

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
money
Benefits

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work

Actor and activist Mark Rylance: 'Brian Haw sacrificed his mind and body for peace'
Peace

Actor and activist Mark Rylance: 'Brian Haw sacrificed his mind and body for peace'

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Wealth tax

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes

Child poverty hits new record high – before Labour benefit cuts will push 50,000 more into hardship
child poverty taskforce
Child poverty

Child poverty hits new record high – before Labour benefit cuts will push 50,000 more into hardship

Doubt cast on Rachel Reeves’ claim Labour will be in ‘touching distance’ of building 1.5 million homes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner meet construction workers at the Bournes Bank site in Stoke-on-Trent.
Housing

Doubt cast on Rachel Reeves’ claim Labour will be in ‘touching distance’ of building 1.5 million homes

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister
Energy minister Michael Shanks
Community energy

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister

Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?
Five years on from the pandemic

Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?

'You don’t have to be a celebrity to make an impact': Big Issue's Covid heroes, five years on
Five years since the pandemic

'You don’t have to be a celebrity to make an impact': Big Issue's Covid heroes, five years on

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals
People protesting against the disability benefit cuts in Westminster.
Disability benefits

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'
Rachel Reeves
Spring Statement

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'

'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts
Disabled people protest benefits cuts at Downing Street ahead of the Spring Statement
Spring Statement

'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to parliament
Spring Statement

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you

'They had nowhere to go': The story of rough sleepers left outside in London's Covid-19 lockdowns
A homeless man sleeping rough at Trafalgar Square
Homelessness

'They had nowhere to go': The story of rough sleepers left outside in London's Covid-19 lockdowns

Covid got us all in mutual aid groups. Five years on, what happened to the lockdown anarchists?
A group of people in reflective vests stand by a van
Five years since the pandemic

Covid got us all in mutual aid groups. Five years on, what happened to the lockdown anarchists?

Families torn apart for not earning enough under 'unfair' visa rules: 'I can't take care of my husband'
Immigration

Families torn apart for not earning enough under 'unfair' visa rules: 'I can't take care of my husband'

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