MYSTERIOUS: 8 | Mind Blowing Facts

Universal Credit warning as DWP told families could lose up to £1,000 a year

The government is due to make an announcement on benefit upratings at the end of the month

Manchester Evening News · Oct 15, 2022

London mortgage bills may ‘rise by £8,000 a year’, warns think-tank

By early 2025, half of all mortgaged households, or 3.8 million, will see higher mortgage costs absorb at least five per cent of their net household income, the Resolution Foundation said

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2022

Britain on course for staggering £26bn mortgage hike, think tank predicts

The forecast predicts that by the end of 2024 nearly a fifth of all British households will be spending more on their housing costs

Wales Online · Oct 15, 2022

Poorer families risk £1,000 hit from earnings-related benefits rise

Below-inflation rise would save exchequer tenth of £40bn to be given out through tax cuts, says thinktank

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2022

Families with children ‘to be hit hardest if benefits are uprated by earnings’

Nine million households containing 30 million people will be affected if benefits rise in line with earnings, according to the Resolution Foundation.

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2022

Benefits will hit lowest level in 40 YEARS if Liz Truss's cut goes ahead

The Resolution Foundation said real-terms benefits could be at their lowest level since the early 1980s - as ex-Chancellor Sajid Javid said a cut wouldn't be 'social justice'

Daily Mirror · Oct 12, 2022

Dithering Truss leaves families in benefit limbo as Kwarteng may need to cut £60BILLION

Lib Dem Wendy Chamberlain warned the failure of Prime Minister Liz Truss to make a decision on benefits meant "millions of people are left in a grim limbo" across Britain

Daily Mirror · Oct 10, 2022

A cut to benefits would batter millions of households – even Tory MPs can’t stomach it

Liz Truss’s threats of a real-terms cut would ramp up inequality and hamper her beloved growth, says Lalitha Try, a researcher at the Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2022

Tory MPs plot to avert benefit squeeze after humiliating U-turns

Kwasi Kwarteng to bring forward fiscal statement to later this month amid disquiet in party over spending cuts hitting poorest

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

‘Massive spending cuts will still be needed’ despite Chancellor’s U-turn

Think tank experts said the Government’s mini-budget plans will still leave the UK’s public finances on an unsustainable path.

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2022