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We just added a new vacancy listing from Coventry Independent Advice Service:

- Debt Caseworker
- Up to 37 hours a week.
- Fixed term: to 31/03/2026 initially
- Up to £29,171
- Location: Coventry / hybrid / remote
- Deadline: 8 December, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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End the benefit trap for homeless young people in supported accommodation to ‘make work pay’

@centrepointuk.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Legal aid practitioners are propping up the system by having to spend a quarter of their time on unpaid work

@wearelapg.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Opportunity needs to be taken to involve health and social care services in addressing needs of people experiencing homelessness

@homelesslink.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Chancellor reaffirms commitment to the pensions ‘triple lock’

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November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Chancellor to launch fresh crackdown on benefit fraud at the same time as lifting the two-child limit

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November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Sayce independent review of carer’s allowance overpayments to be published later

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November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Don't miss out ... the deadlines for these great Benefits Advisor opportunities with Maggie's are all coming up after the weekend:

- North Wales (Deadline: 24 November)
- Aberdeen (Deadline: 24 November)
- Northampton (Deadline: 25 November)

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November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Reductions in disability-related benefits may exacerbate financial and mental health vulnerability without having positive impact on employment

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November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Widower ‘devastated’ by Supreme Court ruling is considering an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights

@publiclawproject.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Swedish welfare authorities suspend ‘discriminatory’ AI tool being used to detect benefit fraud

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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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More than two-fifths of working-age adults in Great Britain experienced conflict at work in the last 12 months

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November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Chancellor urged to ‘grasp the nettle’ with wholesale reset of council tax

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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Resetting LHA rates every few years then freezing them indefinitely is ‘incoherent policy design’

@theifs.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Rule of law: Holding the line between anarchy and tyranny

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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Government say that delayed civil legal aid fee uplifts will not be backdated

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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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New analysis reveals that 103,000 people died in poverty last year, around one in six of all deaths

@mariecurieppa.bsky.social @crsp-uk.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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More than a third of carers struggling to make ends meet don’t know where to go for financial advice

@carers-uk.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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We just added a new vacancy listing from Salford City Council:

- Senior Welfare Rights Officer
- 36 hours a week
- £42,839 - £46,142 per annum
- Location: Salford, Greater Manchester
- Deadline: 5 December 2025

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November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A heads up that the deadline for Maggie's Newcastle vacancy is coming up tomorrow:

- Benefits Advisor - Newcastle (Maternity Cover)
- 37.5 hours a week
- £29,756 - £35,577
- Location: Newcastle
- Deadline: 21 November 2025

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November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Council tax support mess shows perils of hiding spending cuts under cover of localisation

@resolutionfoundation.org @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68981
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Winners of inaugural Advising Londoners Awards announced

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68974
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Legal challenge launched against the DWP for failure to record and provide the support that claimant required as a survivor of sexual abuse

@leigh-day.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68960
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Welcoming growth: The economic case for a fair and humane asylum system

@refugeestogether.bsky.social @pcsunion.bsky.social

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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Yes, no, maybe ... Where do you stand on the top 12 arguments in adult social care?

@blimeysimon.bsky.social

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November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM