Tue.Jul 23, 2024

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Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

The Guardian

Consumer expert writes to chancellor outlining four changes to help remedy financial injustices Rachel Reeves must overhaul the allowance that has resulted in thousands of unpaid carers being saddled with life-changing debt, and in some cases threatened with criminal prosecution, the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis has said. Lewis has written to the chancellor, identifying four measures that he says are possible to enact without great cost to the taxpayer that would remedy financial injusti

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Remembering Jeremy Swain and his contribution to our work on homelessness

Health & Social Care Workforce

Maureen Crane, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London. It was with deep sadness I heard about the death on 27 May 2024 of Jeremy Swain. He was a key figure in tackling homelessness and particularly rough sleeping for decades.

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