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April 8, 2019 · Benefit Cap | Blog | Disability Rights | Ella Abraham | ESA & PIP | Housing & homelessness | Housing Benefit | Marc Francis | Work & Pensions Select Committee

The Benefit Cap: after a damning indictment of one of the Government’s flagship welfare reform policies, the question now is what happens next?

Marc Francis reflects on the Work and Pensions Select Committee's recent report on the Benefit Cap and writes about next steps.

March 20, 2019 · Blog | Disability Rights | ESA & PIP | Housing & homelessness | Raji Hunjan | Work & Pensions Select Committee

DWP Letters to GPs: Why it Matters

Raji writes about our #ScraptheLetters campaign which launched on Monday calling on the department for work and pensions to withdraw their misleading and damaging letters telling GPs to withhold sick notes from the ill and disabled people seeking Employment and Support Allowance.

March 12, 2019 · Benefit Cap | Disability Rights | ESA & PIP | Housing & homelessness | Housing Benefit | Latest News | Marc Francis | Raji Hunjan | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Press Release: Time to Scrap the Cap

Anti-poverty charity, Zacchaeus 2000 Trust (Z2K), today welcomed the Work & Pensions Select Committee’s damning criticism of the Government’s Benefit Cap on Social Security.

February 26, 2019 · Disability Rights | ESA & PIP | Natasha Cross | Universal Credit | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Universal Credit: When “Natural Migration” causes more harm than good

When Judy found herself being moved on to Universal Credit, she had not anticipated the stress and financial anxiety it would cause her. Rather than helping her to take control of her life, it has set her back in her mental health and ability to live independently. Z2K Caseworker, Natasha Cross, on UC and natural migration. UPDATE: Our evidence to the Work and Pensions committee has now been published.

January 2, 2019 · Bailiff reform | Blog | Council Tax Support | Marc Francis | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Select Committee inquiry into the Welfare Safety Net

As the Work & Pensions Select Committee begins a new inquiry into the reasons so many people are falling through the Welfare Safety Net into severe poverty and destitution, Z2K's Marc Francis explains why we hope they will take a closer look at the role played by the "localisation" of Council Tax Benefit.

October 31, 2018 · Benefit Cap | Housing Benefit | Latest News | Marc Francis | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Z2K gives evidence to Work & Pensions Select Committee Benefit Cap Inquiry

In October, Z2K’s Policy & Campaigns Director gave evidence to the Work & Pensions Select Committee as part of its inquiry into the impact of the Government’s Benefit Cap. Watch here see why we think the cap should be scrapped and hope the committee will at least recommend that all disabled people, lone parents with young children and homeless households should be exempted from it.

September 24, 2018 · Benefit Cap | Blog | Disability Rights | ESA & PIP | Housing Benefit | Marc Francis | Work & Pensions Select Committee

The benefit cap unfairly hits people who are unable to work

As MPs reopen their enquiry into the benefit cap, Z2K Policy Director Marc Francis outlines the injustices of the cap and why we’re arguing for change

April 21, 2017 · Benefit Cap | Blog | ESA & PIP | Housing & homelessness | Marc Francis | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Z2K’s review of the 2015-17 Parliament

March 6, 2017 · Disability Rights | ESA & PIP | Latest News | Sam Ashton | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Z2K gives evidence to Work & Pensions Select Committee on disability benefit assessments

November 18, 2015 · Council Tax Support | Housing Benefit | Latest News | Work & Pensions Select Committee

Z2K gives evidence to the Work & Pensions Select Committee on the Local Welfare Safety Net