financial and digital inclusion

Supermarket experts share their best tips for bagging yellow sticker bargains: 'I believe in karma'
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Supermarket experts share their best tips for bagging yellow sticker bargains: 'I believe in karma'

There's an art to bagging the best supermarket deals – just ask these yellow-sticker specialists!
I'm a working mum earning a decent salary – but the two-child limit on benefits hits my family too
Thea Jaffe alongside her three kids.
Thea Jaffe

I'm a working mum earning a decent salary – but the two-child limit on benefits hits my family too

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?
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Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?

What we have learned after 15 years of universal credit – and what must change
Lucy Bannister

What we have learned after 15 years of universal credit – and what must change

BBC Radio 1's Matt Edmonson: 'I'm no Martin Lewis, but I've always been quite frugal'
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BBC Radio 1's Matt Edmonson: 'I'm no Martin Lewis, but I've always been quite frugal'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Universal credit flaws are driving people to food banks. It's time it covered the essentials
A Trussell food bank worker sorting food parcels
Ayaz Manji

Universal credit flaws are driving people to food banks. It's time it covered the essentials

15 years on, it's time we made universal credit the game changer it can be 
Then prime minister David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne.
Iain Porter

15 years on, it's time we made universal credit the game changer it can be 

Universal credit sanctions more 'severe' and 'damaging' than criminal fines, report finds
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Universal credit

Universal credit sanctions more 'severe' and 'damaging' than criminal fines, report finds

Rachel Reeves looks set to raise taxes in the autumn budget. What does it mean for you?
Rachel Reeves speaking at an early briefing on the autumn budget on 4 November
Autumn budget

Rachel Reeves looks set to raise taxes in the autumn budget. What does it mean for you?

'Incentivising work' or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
Ayla Ozmen

'Incentivising work' or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired

Men are increasingly turning to AI and social media for health advice. The NHS needs to catch up
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William Pett

Men are increasingly turning to AI and social media for health advice. The NHS needs to catch up

Don't listen to JP Morgan. Britain's benefits system is dire 
Naomi McAuliffe

Don't listen to JP Morgan. Britain's benefits system is dire 

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon. I
Adriana Abdenur

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer

Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot
Economic secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby looking at her phone
Financial inclusion

Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot

How many children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child limit was scrapped where you live?
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Child poverty

How many children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child limit was scrapped where you live?

How trust could transform Britain's broken benefits system
Pat McFadden, work and pensions secretary. Image: House of Commons/ Flickr
Lucy Bannister

How trust could transform Britain's broken benefits system

DWP payment dates in November 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
A person paying bills.
Benefits

DWP payment dates in November 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

How Fair for You's Shopping Card Loan is helping people face down debt 
Debt

How Fair for You's Shopping Card Loan is helping people face down debt 

Ofgem's plan to write off £500m of energy debt is welcome – but it's not enough to solve the crisis
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Vikki Brownridge

Ofgem's plan to write off £500m of energy debt is welcome – but it's not enough to solve the crisis

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Brits to have energy bill debt written off
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Energy debt

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Brits to have energy bill debt written off

UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped
Jasleen Chaggar

UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Digital ID scheme will be a 'passport' out of homelessness, insists Keir Starmer
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Digital ID scheme will be a 'passport' out of homelessness, insists Keir Starmer

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?
Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves laughing
Benefit fraud

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?

Celebrating 20 years of Big Issue Invest: Proving what was once only imagined
Nigel Kershaw

Celebrating 20 years of Big Issue Invest: Proving what was once only imagined

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering the autumn budget in 2024.
Howard Reed and Martin O’Neill

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win