The government’s weekly £20 top-up to Universal Credit payments, intended as a support measure during the pandemic, ends today and is expected to lead to a further 290,000 more children falling below the poverty line,according to the Legatum Institute think tankin London. Advertise...
Universal Credit (UC) provides vital financial support to families, especially those with children or other dependents. For parents and carers, the system is de ... Universal Credit for Families: Support for Parents and Carers ,Firefly Open Source Commun
This article critically evaluates and contests the flagship benefit delivery system Universal Credit for lone mothers by focusing on some of the ethical challenges it poses, as well as some key implications it holds for social work with lone mothers and their children. Universal Credit was first ...
Numerically, women are disproportionately affected by the conditionality regime for main carers of children within Universal Credit. Under this new benefit, couples have to nominate as 'responsible carer' the person in the household primarily responsible for the care of dependent children. Lone parents...
A month or so ago,I rang some East London letting agentsto ask if they would let flats toN, a single mother who’d pay her rent with universal credit. I explained that N was homeless, living in an emergency hostel with her 2 very young children, and in need of a 2-bedroom flat in...
Gordon Brown has pleaded with the government not to go ahead with a £20-a-week cut to universal credit. The former prime minister said: "It is not too late for the government to spare millions of people the choice between heating and eating this winter." ...
It notes that UC replaces tax credits and certain benefits such as income support, child tax credit and housing benefit. People with learning disabilities eligible for UC include the unemployed, with limited capability for work and with dependent children. Personal allowance and childcare and housing...
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For several decades, child advocates have tried to bring more public indignation to the scandal of extreme child poverty, and have pushed for the expansion of the Child Tax Credit. In recent years, some progressives have called for something that seemed even more utopian, a universal basic ...
The present cross-sectional study aimed to identify sex-specific characteristics and other factors for firstborn children’s emotions and behaviors during their mothers’ second pregnancy after the implementation of the two-child policy in China. Firstborn children aged 1.5–5 years old and their pre...