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CAMPAIGNERS will target the Department for Work and Pensions in Sheffield tomorrow in protest at increasing worker poverty.
Sheffield TUC will be among organisations taking part in the protest, which runs from noon to 1pm at the DWP offices at Hartshead.
The government’s universal credit “uplift” of £20, which was introduced during the pandemic, is to be withdrawn tomorrow.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
