New Reforms Set to Help Leaseholders With Buying Their Homes

On the 7th of January, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced a collection of reforms to [...]

DWP Issues Guidance Regarding Allowing SDP for UC Claimants

Following the removal of the Severe Disability Premium Gateway, which prevented claimants of Universal Credit [...]

Disability Benefits Consortium Publishes Their Report on Pandemic Poverty

The report focuses on the financial impact that Covid-19 has caused for those in receipt [...]

Citizens Advice Poll Shows 14% of People are Behind On Household Bills

A poll of 6,004 people, conducted by ICM Unlimited for Citizens Advice, has shown that [...]

ADASS Survey Shows Significant Rise in Requests for Adult Social Care

The “ADASS Autumn Survey”, which is responded to by councils across the country, was centred [...]

Mental Health and Income Commission publish report on “Mental Health Income Gap”

The final report from the Mental Health and Income Commission shows there is a significant  ‘mental health [...]

Plans to Regulate Buy-Now-Pay-Later Products

Interest-free buy-now-pay-later credit agreements will be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in order [...]

New APPG Report on Universal Credit’s £20 Uplift

“The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty aims to increase understanding of poverty among parliamentarians [...]

Increased Covid Protections for Renters and Rough Sleepers

Extra support to help protect rough sleepers and renters from the effects of COVID-19 has [...]

Updates to the Discretionary Housing Payments guidance manual

This guidance, made for local authorities in England and Wales, includes advice on how Discretionary [...]