A Bill to provide for certain social security rules which apply where life expectancy is 6 months or less to apply instead where life expectancy is 12 months or less

Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims with entitlement, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment benefits (the “claimant count”) for the UK and by parliamentary constituency.

This paper explores people with mental health problems’ experiences of ‘managed migration’ – the government’s process of moving people from legacy benefits to Universal Credit (UC).

The Compensation Recovery Unit recovers social security benefits in certain compensation cases and NHS costs in certain injury cases.

Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and May 2022.

In 2022, the rising cost of living presents the most significant challenge to living standards for many years, and comes after a period of social and economic uncertainty resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a growing gap between what people have and what people need for a decent standard of living.

Millions of people in the UK risk falling well short of this standard as costs continue to rise and our social security system fails to provide adequate and appropriate support. Short-term support measures are vital now, but will only go so far; we need a social security system that is fit for today.

As of June 2022, around 5.6 million people are on Universal Credit, an increase of around 90 per cent since the pandemic began. At TUC Congress 2018, Congress passed a motion calling […]