Major @ESRC project researching the benefits system & employment support during COVID-19 & its aftermath @SalfordUni @UniKent @UniversityLeeds @LSEnews @deakin
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
So the @DistantWelfare @kateesummers team used new data to unpack this in an @IPPR article and found that a clear majority of Britons (61%) think that benefit payments are insufficient to alleviate even basic subsistence poverty:
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
📢📢We are launching 📢📢
*Social Security Soundings* today. It's a website that features 18 women discussing the question "What is social security for?"
sssoundings.org/
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Should we talk about 'social security' instead of 'welfare'? Some new evidence inequalitiesblog.wordpress.c…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Yes coproduced research but need to remove barriers for people eg with #LongCovid in receipt of #Benefits U.K. #DWP as there are complex rules + processes that are #EnergyDrainAdmin , not fit for purpose, risk to income #ESA @Know_HG @DistantWelfare @BeresfordPeter
@anita_atwal
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
"People often think that benefit levels are related to meeting some level of minimum need, but this is not the case. The last, and only, official assessment of benefits adequacy was undertaken in the 1960s, and it had little effect on subsequent policy."
bit.ly/3N5lRTV
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
With the political landscape changing at a dizzying speed, @daniel_edmiston and I have tried to give a slightly wider view on benefit uprating and the need to recentre focus on adequacy and meeting need.
@ConversationUK
theconversation.com/raising-…
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Congratulations to @lisa_scullion and the @DistantWelfare team, who have been shortlisted in this year's @timeshighered awards! ⭐ #THEAwards
Read more ⬇️
salford.ac.uk/news/salford-s…
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For a detailed account of the barriers that people with learning disabilities face in the benefits system, read @NeilCarpenter14 's new book Benefits on Trial - a short summary at citizen-network.org/library/… and you can find the book at citizen-network.org/store/be…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Our @DistantWelfare comic was turned into a #LSEFestival short 🎬📽️
Focusing on lessons we can take forward from social security claimants during the pandemic - inc. - adequacy matters!
(with guest voiceovers from @daniel_edmiston & @lisa_scullion 😮)
youtube.com/watch?v=mLCWpvLN…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
4)But single parents do not feel they are provided with tailored support that takes account of the unique combination of challenges facing them. Data from @DistantWelfare project shows single parent benefit recipients report more negative experiences than others on such issues.
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@Gingerbread’s report on the Single Parent Employment Challenge, funded by @finan_fairness and authored by @LausDee, Charlotte Edney and I has been published today. A thread. gingerbread.org.uk/policy-ca…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
We are holding a major online @BritishAcademy_ conference on 'Public Attitudes to Benefits Systems and their Users' with a focus on implications for policy design. 31 March / 1st April. Register here thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
New paper by @DHJ_Young in @JSP_Journal *Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK* cup.org/3IcXEYs👇👇
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
The TUC is working with partners to review how Universal Credit is working.
We're keen to hear from as many people claiming UC as possible.
You can complete this form to sign up for a telephone interview with a £20 incentive.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
#openaccess paper by @DistantWelfare. Local state and third sector actors are introducing new dynamics and discretionary practice into the claims-making process, shaping whether social security is received and by whom: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @kateesummers @DavidRobertsha7
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
We looked at levels of food insecurity among benefit recipients (@DistantWelfare)
Majority of working-age who are food insecure are receiving benefits.
Half of UC recipients worried food will run out, quarter report hunger because not enough money.
distantwelfare.co.uk/food-in…
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Really proud of this new report I've written with @NEF on how we could reshape our benefits & tax systems to provide genuine social security for all. If you're interested in big, radical policy ideas please do have a read, share it & tell us what you think neweconomics.org/2022/01/soc…
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Hello Twitter friends! Who are the people we should be talking to in West Yorkshire about our Universal Credit and Employers research project? If you're in touch with any employment policy and practice folk who might like to find out more please shout! @UC_Employers
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Brilliant #research comic sharing people's first hand experiences of claiming benefits during #Covid19UK ⤵️
The last 18 months have been characterised by profound change & uncertainty for those worst affected by COVID-19. Today, we're launching a research comic that shares people's first-hand experience of claiming benefits during the pandemic: bit.ly/31tcJFn
Pls RT 🙏📢🙏
ALT Front cover of research comic entitled "social security during COVID-19". Two hands can be seen, with one signing a universal credit claimant commitment through the screen of a laptop.
Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
Excited to see this @ESRC project, developed with Leeds-based researchers, use a comic to share stories about how people experience social security in the pandemic. We've been talking to @LinkingLeeds today about links between financial concerns and mental and physical health.
The last 18 months have been characterised by profound change & uncertainty for those worst affected by COVID-19. Today, we're launching a research comic that shares people's first-hand experience of claiming benefits during the pandemic: bit.ly/31tcJFn
Pls RT 🙏📢🙏
ALT Front cover of research comic entitled "social security during COVID-19". Two hands can be seen, with one signing a universal credit claimant commitment through the screen of a laptop.