Great news! 🎉 The government is consulting on changing the council tax system to make it fairer - including giving people more time between missing a payment and having to pay their full annual bill. This is a big win for our Council Tax Trap campaign with @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com.

For someone living with severe mental illness, cutting off their phone & broadband means losing access to mental health crisis support, their Universal Credit account & contact family who are often the ones who keep us safe. Yet that's exactly what our new Money and Mental Health research exposed.

Today's spring statement has left me feeling angry. The changes will drive an extra 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children. 96% of households who lose financially contain someone with a disability. We need to balance the books, but not at the expense of the most vulnerable people.

Today the Financial Conduct Authority published its review of firms’ treatment of customers in vulnerable circumstances. A quick 🧵 on the findings and our some of our reaction/thoughts at @moneyandmentalhealth.org

Great profile of our work & Martin Lewis' vision for the charity in The Guardian - including our supercomplainant status announcement. Delighted to hear we're apparently entering the 'top tier' of consumer organisations! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's a REALLY big day at Money and Mental Health 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks @charlotteajohn.bsky.social & @liam-hill.bsky.social for putting me on the spot - but I completed the challenge with seven seconds to spare! 💪 🕐 🎉

Please join me in welcoming @moneyandmentalhealth.org to Bluesky! Help us get started by giving us a follow and a share! 💪🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼

We have another win in the Mental Health Bill! 💥 Last night the Minister commited that there will be an 'explicit requirement' to offer access to the Mental Health Breathing Space scheme - giving more people respite from debt fees, charges and collection activity. www.linkedin.com/videos/urn:l...

Enjoyed speaking at today's @citizensadvice.bsky.social data insights event on debt alongside the always impressive @tommacinnes.bsky.social - even if it is rather terrifying when over 1,000 people turn up to watch! You can catch up here: app.sli.do/event/1gjb6p...

Just had a Treasury meet with Tulip Siddiq on behalf of my Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity to discuss potential unfair treatment of people with mental health problems when getting insurance (eg travel) + needed change to debt collection practices which damage mental health

I spent a couple of years working at Relate and was struck by the transformative impact their services have. Few things are as important to our mental health as our relationships, and few other organisations know how to help with that like Relate does. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

This evening I was lucky enough to have dinner with a group of mental health leaders (thank you @mirandawolpert.bsky.social) - & realised that we're not connected on here. So I got a 'mental health leaders' starter pack going: go.bsky.app/DqTaxQj - please do tell me all the great people I've missed!

I’ve one clear memory of John Prescott making a difference when I was working in DWP in the 2000s No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”

Looking forward to spending today with a couple of our funders. First with @impurbanhealth.bsky.social discussing our exciting plans for next year. Then joining the Aviva Foundation learning day to present on the potential for data sharing to support people with mental health problems.

And to intro our latest work - no one explains it better than @martinlewismse.bsky.social Within 3 weeks of missing a council tax payment you can be billed for the whole year. Within 6 weeks - bailiffs at your door. Credit card providers aren't allowed to act so aggressively, why is your council?

Morning all. No snow in this part of London. Very much just extra cold rain. Promise I will get onto the work content soon. But thought I'd say hello first... 👋🏼

Right. So far Bluesky for me is all people in charities posting about their latest consultancy gig, and artsy soft focus pictures of the moon / forests. A cross between LinkedIn and Microsoft desktop backgrounds from the 90s. I'm not sure I nailed my starter pack selections tbh.