Tag archives for Universal Credit
Funding Boost for Local Schools
The Government’s spending review delivered some good news for hard-pressed families across Hastings with the announcement of an expansion of the free school meals and free breakfast clubs programmes. The…
Human Cost of Universal Credit
FERDUSARA ALI I had been actively looking for work but encountered an overwhelming number of barriers – pre-employment checks, background criminal record scrutiny and reference requests from the last six…
Cost of Living Support
East Sussex County Council is providing information on how to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. The information in this article comes from one of their newsletters. The recent costs of…
Cost of Living: Direct Support
The appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister is expected to catalyse major new initiatives to cap energy price rises and/or to reduce taxes – to be announced quite probably…
Community round-up
Emmaus attends royal garden party On 11 May, Emmaus Hastings & Rother trustee David Cooper attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Every year, three garden parties are given at…
Dr Energy
The team at Energise Sussex Coast answer your home energy-related questions to help everyone to save money and keep warm as sustainably as possible. Is the Green Home Grant a…
Urgent help needed for private renters
Trade union, Unite, has called on the government to ensure renters get the protection they need. The situation is particularly acute in Hastings and St Leonard’s with 40% of its…
Free Training Offered In £1m College Pledge
East Sussex College (ESC) has pledged £1million to help retrain and upskill people in Sussex following the coronavirus pandemic. Its management say they intend to apply this sum out of…
Rough Sleeping In Rough Times
On Thursday 26th March, every council leader in England received a letter from Luke Hall MP, the Under Secretary of State for Local Government and ;It asked their councils to house all…
Needy Tenants And Rent Caps
Asked to explain the criteria for selection of future residential tenants at the OB, White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures director James Leathers told HIP that design plans are far from finalised…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have…
Ore Library Closure
By Colin Gibson After efforts by the local community to keep it open after its initial closure order in May 2018, Ore public library will now close and will be…
Hastings & Rother Credit Union
Some people have problems with using conventional ; For some this is a simple lack of trust in those institutions but for others, especially those with limited funds, they are…
Hungry All Year Round
The Hastings Foodbank, which has reported a shocking 87 per cent increase in use over the last two years, is making an urgent appeal for donations over the Christmas and…
The UC Regime In Hastings
Universal Credit (UC), administered by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), is a key element in this Government’s welfare benefits regime. It merges six working age benefits into a…
Careless Employers: A Tale of Universal Credit
By Lindsey Williams At the beginning of June this year I returned to Hastings from a working trip abroad - I had been teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia…
Welfare system ‘forcing people to the brink’, says local advice agency
Survey reveals evidence of ‘systemic dishonesty’ in Universal Credit benefits means testing by Emma Harwood “Draconian” reforms to the welfare system introduced by the Conservative government are failing those who…