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DWP benefits and cost of living payment dates to expect in February 2024
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Benefits

DWP benefits and cost of living payment dates to expect in February 2024

UK poverty: The facts, effects and solutions in the cost of living crisis
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Poverty

UK poverty: The facts, effects and solutions in the cost of living crisis

30 hours free childcare: Who is eligible and how do I apply in 2024?
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Childcare

30 hours free childcare: Who is eligible and how do I apply in 2024?

Here's when people will get the cold weather payment as temperatures drop below freezing
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Cost of living crisis

Here's when people will get the cold weather payment as temperatures drop below freezing

Tax-free childcare: How does it work, how much can you save and how can you apply?
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Childcare

Tax-free childcare: How does it work, how much can you save and how can you apply?

DWP benefits payment dates to expect in January 2024 – with changes over the New Year
Benefits

DWP benefits payment dates to expect in January 2024 – with changes over the New Year

Here's when people will get their benefits from the DWP over the Christmas period
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Christmas

Here's when people will get their benefits from the DWP over the Christmas period

Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024
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Cost of living crisis

Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024

How do Big Issue sellers make money?
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Activism

How do Big Issue sellers make money?

How does The Big Issue help homeless people?
Big Issue Winter Support Kit launch at Christmas
Activism

How does The Big Issue help homeless people?

Where does my money go when I buy The Big Issue?
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Activism

Where does my money go when I buy The Big Issue?

How many empty homes are there in the UK?
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Housing

How many empty homes are there in the UK?

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis
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Child poverty

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis

5 ways to help those suffering in the deadly Israel-Hamas war
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Israel-Palestine conflict

5 ways to help those suffering in the deadly Israel-Hamas war

What is a People's House? The demand made by Keir Starmer's glittery conference protester
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Democracy

What is a People's House? The demand made by Keir Starmer's glittery conference protester

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained
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Minimum wage

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government
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15-Minute Cities

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government

Here's when people got the disability cost of living payment – and what to do if yours is missing
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Cost of living crisis

Here's when people got the disability cost of living payment – and what to do if yours is missing

Will net zero make you broke? Here's all the support on offer to make the switch
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Net zero

Will net zero make you broke? Here's all the support on offer to make the switch

Pension triple lock: What is it and how does it affect me?
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Pensions

Pension triple lock: What is it and how does it affect me?

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