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Grenfell Tower (left) in west London is illuminated in green along with its surrounding towers in June to mark a year since the moment the devastating fire took hold
UNIVERSAL CREDIT (UC) will leave some Grenfell survivors without any money over Christmas, Labour’s Emma Dent Coad has warned.
The MP, whose constituency includes the burnt-out tower block, has urged the government to delay this week’s local launch of the much-criticised benefit system.
UC is due to be introduced in North Kensington just 13 days before Christmas. It was postponed from its scheduled date in June 2017 following the blaze that killed 72 people.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
