Benefits

08/12/2017

The centrality of poverty

Poverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation of most aspects of social exclusion and a range of social outcomes, concludes the 2nd of the two-volume PSE-UK study.

Subjects: Benefits, Child benefit, Child poverty, Crime, Debt, Deprivation, Education, Employment, Families, Financial exclusion, Government cuts, Government policy, Health, Heating, Homeless, Housing, In-work poverty, Job security, Living standards, Local services, Low pay, Mental health, Necessities, Part-time work, Poverty measurement, Public services, Social exclusion, Unemployment
Category: Articles
31/05/2017

The true cost of austerity

The human cost of government imposed austerity should be a key issue, argue Vickie Cooper and David Whyte. Drawing on their new book, 'The Violence of Austerity', they set out how austerity is shaping people's lives and deaths.

Subjects: Benefit cap, Benefits, Government cuts, Government policy, Public services, Social policy, Welfare system
Category: Articles
29/01/2016

Journal papers

Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys highlight changes in the conditions of survey production over this 45 year period in the latest output from the PSE research.

Subjects: Benefits, Child poverty, Deprivation, Disability, Discrimination, Early intervention, Employment, Families, Gender, Housing, Low pay, Necessities, Northern Ireland, Older people, Parenting, Pensions, Shame, Social networks, The troubles
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26/01/2016

Community engagement project in Northern Ireland

As part of the PSE UK team's commitment to encouraging public engagement, stimulating debate and informing policy, the team sought to develop new approaches to engaging with grassroots lobbying groups, community practitioners and people directly affected by poverty and social exclusion. In collaboration with the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland a pilot project was run with eight local community groups across Northern Ireland. The final report of the project's impact, 'We are sitting with the big people now', details the empowering impact this project had on the people involved. Further details can be found under Communities in Action including the videos and other outputs of the community groups involved.

Subjects: Area deprivation, Benefits, Deprivation, Northern Ireland, Social networks, Working papers
Category: PSE Report
18/03/2014

MPs criticise ‘spin’ against benefit claimants

A report by MPs has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions for a series of cases in which official statistics were used to 'spin' stories about benefit claimants, thereby encouraging 'negative preconceptions and prejudices'.

Subjects: Benefits, Disability, Social attitudes
Category: Reports
03/03/2014

Call for benefits sanctions overhaul

Each year as many as 68,000 people on jobseeker's allowance have their benefits taken away unfairly and face unnecessary hardship as a result, according to a new report from the Policy Exchange think tank. The report calls for the system of sanctions to be overhauled.

Subjects: Benefits
Category: Reports
19/02/2014

Bishops condemn benefits reforms

Twenty-seven Church of England bishops have signed a letter condemning the coalition government's benefits reforms, which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty.

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, published in the Daily Mirror to mark the beginning of Lent, the bishops – along with 16 representatives of other Churches – said that too many people were having to choose between 'heat or eat' as a result of 'cut backs and failures in the benefit system'.

Subjects: Benefits
Category: News stories
19/02/2014

Record sanctions for benefits claimants

The total number of sanctions imposed on benefit claimants in the year to September 2013 was 897,690 – the highest figure for any 12-month period since jobseeker's allowance was introduced in 1996 – according to figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions.

The figures show the number of sanctions imposed under the tougher new regime introduced by the coalition government in October 2012. They cover jobseeker's allowance (JSA) and employment and support allowance (ESA).

Subjects: Benefits
Category: Reports
17/02/2014

Benefit reform effects a ‘disgrace’ – senior Catholic

Britain's most senior Catholic cleric has described the effects of the coalition government's benefits reforms as a 'disgrace', and said the changes have removed even the most basic safety net for those threatened by poverty. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, said the system has become more 'punitive', leaving people with nothing if they fail to fill in forms correctly.

Subjects: Benefits
Category: News stories
17/02/2014

Impact of benefits reforms in Wales

The coalition government's reforms to benefits and tax credits will cost Wales around £900 million a year by 2015-16, according to a study carried out for the Welsh Government.

The study looks at the impact of the changes on local authority areas in Wales, updating and extending earlier work on the effects at the household and individual level.

Subjects: Benefits, Wales
Category: Reports

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