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In a letter to the government, 4 chairs of chairs of cross-party committees in all four UK Parliaments say '...Ending the uplift would m

Rethink Mental Illness has produced a report called Tip of the Iceberg? Deaths and Serious Harm in the Benefts System. The report has 4 key fndings-

In April 2017, the government introduced a policy that provides support for a maximum of 2 children in Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit(for those born after that date)

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has been told by the government that-

The Public Law Project Took a case to the High Court and obtained an Order by Consent which says the Best Practise Memorandum(referred to in Decision Makers Gui

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The government has confrmed the very high burden of Tax Credit Debt recovery on Universal Credit claimants-

In our at a glance guide to Benefit Changes announced in the Budget 2021, we explained a change which is helpful to some claimants-

Sanctions under Universal Credit are not back up to pre pandemic levels yet, but are edging . upwards.

Latest Government figures point to around 3.9% of benefts expenditure being overpaid or £8.4 billion. This is-

Fraud- 3%

Claimant Error- 0.6%

A report called State of Hunger, by the Trussell Trust, has found- 1.5 million unique households (5-6 % of all UK households) were supported by an independent food bank or a food bank in the Trussell Trust network between April 2016 and March 2020.

A report called Welfare at a (Social) Distance, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found-

A survey of Housing Associations by the National Housing Federation found- '60% of households claiming Universal Credit are in arrears, compared to 36% of

households paying by other means.'

A High Court Case, R (Blundell & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has ruled in favour of 4 claimants who were having large deductions taken from their Universal Credit for court fnes.