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InAn Injustice!byThomas Hockley·Apr 29‘By the End of the Month, There’s Nothing Left’A renewed focus on adequacy: how an ‘Essentials Guarantee’ could strengthen Universal Credit.
Des Atkins·Mar 20Pre-Revenue, Not Unemployed: The UK’s Blind Spot Around Startup FoundersWhat happens when innovation meets a system that doesn’t recognise it
E Wright·Jan 13On Holding -Part 1. The Week Hope Required an Assessment FormI entered 2026 with cautious optimism. The sensible kind. The sort you allow yourself after a difficult year and a quiet promise that…
InAdviser onlinebyLaura Docherty·Jan 7Non-advanced education and Universal CreditLaura Docherty explores entitlement to Universal Credit when the claimant is studying a non-advanced course of education
InWe are Citizens AdvicebyJulia Ruddick-Trentmann·Oct 10, 2025No more waiting on the 5 week waitThis autumn, the government has the chance to take action on one of Universal Credit’s longest-standing problems: “the 5 week wait”.
Maxine Enixam·Sep 16, 2025The Harsh Reality of Universal CreditUniversal Credit was sold to us as a fairer, simpler benefits system. In reality, it has become one of the most punishing and dehumanising…A response icon1A response icon1
Sarah Dean·Aug 27, 2025In “Broken Britain,” being poor is criminalI left my job as a support worker this summer. I enjoyed the work and liked working with most of my clients, but it was making me ill. One…
