EXC: Labour hands out £770m in benefits for ‘unknown’ health conditions
More than 150,000 claimants of sickness top-up had no recorded medical conditions last year
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My two favourite things-trains & silly spending
Exc
Labour accused of “burning money” for spending £36k to find out some people without cars use trains
Findings also include that some don’t travel by rail because they “don’t like travelling with others”
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🗳️ Some councils could predict Britain’s political future
Our interactive map reveals how voters abandoned traditional party strongholds in one of the most dramatic local election results in decades
Explore the hotspots driving Britain’s political realignment ⬇️
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Almost one in 20 people who turned 18 in 2020 have been on Universal Credit their entire adulthood.
“I’d love to be young again,” my mother’s friend says wistfully.
“Back then, though. I wouldn’t want to be young now, God!”
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Benefits are "sticky", he wrote, announcing a package of job incentives for the young in March.
But the measures might be too late for a "locked out" year group of pandemic claimants.
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How Covid left 24-year-olds on the ‘scrapheap’ – with no choice but a lifetime on benefits
Almost one in 20 of those who turned 18 during the pandemic have been on Universal Credit their entire adulthoods
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@abreslin1
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More than nine in 10 UC claimants since lockdown measures ended in late 2022 were recorded as having “mental and behavioural disorders”, acc DWP figures.
A 22yo on health-based UC is less likely to get a job than someone in their 50s on the same benefit, Pat McFadden admitted.
Streeting to tackle 'appalling' NHS medical misogyny culture
More than 500k people wait for gynaecology treatment as Health Sec promises to punish hospitals that 'gaslight' women
First joint byline with fantastic @lauradonnlee
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