Pensioners to mobilise against cuts to winter fuel payments

TRADE unionists and pensioners will mobilise on Monday to demand the government reverse its axing of the winter fuel allowance.

Applications for student hardship funds 82 per cent higher than pre-pandemic

THE number of students applying for emergency funds to help with living costs is 82 per cent higher than pre-pandemic, with ethnic minority student

Campaigners demand more support for pensioners as sky-high energy bills expected

CAMPAIGNERS called for more support to protect pensioners from sky-high energy bills this winter as prices increased under Ofgem’s latest cap hike 

Labour must match the Scottish Child Payment UK-wide to fight poverty, say SNP

MORE than half a million children could be lifted out of poverty if Westminster’s Labour government matched the Scottish child payment, the SNP has

Energy bills to rise 65 per cent higher than four years ago

CAMPAIGNERS called for the government to reverse cuts to the winter fuel payment today, with energy bills set to rise by 10 per cent from next week

Labour must scrap Trident and fund welfare instead, Scottish Greens urge

LABOUR must scrap Trident and use its funding to reinstate the winter fuel payment, scrap the two-child benefit cap and build a “fairer, greener fu

Reeves must ‘not repeat the mistakes’ of austerity, SNP says

SNP Scottish government’s finance secretary Shona Robison has urged Labour not to “repeat the mistakes” of Tory austerity in next month’s Budget.

Reeves doubles down on fuel benefit cut

Poverty in Britain ‘out of control’, Big Issue warns

POVERTY in Britain is “out of control”, with 3.8 million people struggling to feed, clothe and keep themselves warm, the Big Issue has said. 

Labour Conference 2024 A break with austerity is needed to tackle the toxic Tory legacy

RICHARD BURGON MP, who voted against the cut to winter fuel allowance, warns against a return to austerity, introducing his ideas that could raise billions to properly fund public services and boost wages instead