There are now 2.5 unemployed people looking for work for every vacancy. The jobs market is oversaturated with too many people looking for work and not enough jobs to fill. 1/3

@nyecominetti.bsky.social piece from yesterday important context for today's labour market stats. ALL of the change in the employment rate since the pandemic is due to unemployment - a lack of jobs not a lack of jobseekers.

Late shout for this. Still time to register!

Ahead of our end of year Data Insights session (sign up here! Featuring special guest @anooshc.bsky.social from the New Statesman www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turning-th...) I wrote something very short on the 2 child limit, living standards and political ambition medium.com/p/9e10a39f80cf

I'm seeing 3 of my top 5 Spotify wrapped artists live in 2026, in walking distance of my house Which probably doesn't sound odd unless you know where I live

Called it - government adopts the pensions triple lock plus craigberry.substack.com/p/the-pensio... #budget2025

Growth won’t save Starmer. It’s a metric, not a mission. What if the real mission was peace — at home (less division, stronger communities) and abroad (diplomacy, democracy, humanitarian leadership)? Peace gives politics direction. Growth doesn’t. Read on: open.substack.com/pub/rainerka...

This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..

Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived. One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.” www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

New blog out today, as part of our work with @healthfoundation.bsky.social, looking at the unequal health impacts of the current system of housing cost support that fails to cover people's rent.

Check out Sarah's thread on LHA and the autumn budget 👇

Check out Sarah's thread on LHA and the autumn budget 👇

More from @citizensadvice.bsky.social on Local Housing Allowance today... Here's our pre-budget briefing by the brilliant @DrSarahHadfield.bsky.social assets.ctfassets.net/mfz4nbgura3g...

📢Young disabled people could face benefit cuts of more than £420 a month if government plans go ahead. Young people deserve real support - not cuts that could push them into poverty. New blog from me & @victoria-anns.bsky.social: medium.com/p/62015a6f0b12

Spot on from Hannah Aldridge on Local Housing Allowance www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... LHA *desperately* needs to be uprated this year. But we also need to change how this decision is made

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

It's important to get the new support conversation for disabled people right... @kslharrison.bsky.social shows the way, in a new paper for @citizensadvice.bsky.social👇

Work Capability Assessment delays are leaving disabled people in limbo Excellent piece by @scollerton.bsky.social wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/work-capabil...

📢No more waiting on the 5 week wait, says my @citizensadvice.bsky.social colleague @julia-rt.bsky.social The 5 week wait for a first UC payment means families end up in debt to DWP -leading to deductions from future payments that cause real hardship This needs to change medium.com/citizens-adv...

⚠️ Mandatory reconsideration needs reconsidering ⚠️ Waiting times for benefits appeals have increased significantly - the system isn't fit for purpose Excellent analysis by my @citizensadvice.bsky.social colleague Buki Akinosho wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/reconsiderin...

📢No more waiting on the 5 week wait, says my @citizensadvice.bsky.social colleague @julia-rt.bsky.social The 5 week wait for a first UC payment means families end up in debt to DWP -leading to deductions from future payments that cause real hardship This needs to change medium.com/citizens-adv...

⚠️ Mandatory reconsideration needs reconsidering ⚠️ Waiting times for benefits appeals have increased significantly - the system isn't fit for purpose Excellent analysis by my @citizensadvice.bsky.social colleague Buki Akinosho wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/reconsiderin...

UK poverty crisis as 500,000 children in homes trapped in benefit debt cycle - @julia-rt.bsky.social's research on Universal Credit deductions covered in the Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

ICYMI - the public don't support cutting Universal Credit or freezing Local Housing Allowance 🧵

The govt wants to get more disabled people into work, but isn't making full use of the tools at its disposal In my new report for @citizensadvice.bsky.social I've looked at how our social security system could do more to make sure that when disabled people want to work, work really does pay /1

ICYMI - the public don't support cutting Universal Credit or freezing Local Housing Allowance 🧵

Some fantastic insights and policy ideas in @beccastacey.bsky.social's new report. We can't simply will more disabled people into work, there needs to be greater support - and the benefits system might be going in the wrong direction 👇

📢 Benefit cuts don’t have widespread support

📢 Benefit cuts don’t have widespread support

Great to see @beccastacey.bsky.social's research covered here by @cjayanetti.bsky.social in the @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

At least 50,000 disabled people could lose access to financial employment support if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the WCA benefit assessment, according to a new report from Citizens Advice The true figure is likely to be higher By me, for Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Some fantastic insights and policy ideas in @beccastacey.bsky.social's new report. We can't simply will more disabled people into work, there needs to be greater support - and the benefits system might be going in the wrong direction 👇

Great to see @beccastacey.bsky.social's research covered here by @cjayanetti.bsky.social in the @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Our latest data shows that people’s problems are becoming more urgent and more complex. And the systems designed to support them are harder to navigate than ever. Join us on 25 September to hear from a panel of experts and explore our data ⤵️ https://bit.ly/41XFPsn #CADataInsights

A new report by the Work and Pensions Committee is calling on the government to go further with its plans to reform Jobcentres

As Victoria says "the UC bill will have far reaching consequences, many of which haven’t been properly debated or understood". There is no upside here. It's simply an attack on disabled people, making work less not more likely 👇

Cuts to disability benefits weren’t totally averted! 🚨New report out today explaining why the Universal Credit Bill will harm disabled people and exploring who will be impacted by the cuts. www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

This is fascinating stuff from Tom and colleagues at @neweconomics.bsky.social and Camden Council 👇

For @theleaduk.bsky.social I had another look at the impact of the poorly-designed 'Making Tax Digital' policy on the most economically vulnerable workers in the economy. The added cost for disabled people at the same time as benefit cuts is inexplicable. national.thelead.uk/p/making-tax...

Our letter to Stephen Timms on the conduct of the review into Personal Independence Payment www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...

Read the letter 👇 www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...

The Timms Review could be an opportunity for the government to rebuild trust with disabled people. Working with @turn2us.org.uk and 16 other leading charities, we are today launching an open letter calling for the government to ensure the Review is meaningfully co-produced.

My team at @citizensadvice.bsky.social is recruiting for a Policy Research Assistant. Come and join us! www.jobtrain.co.uk/citizensadvi...

ICYMI We published 2 excellent briefs on Universal Credit recently, feeding into the government's review of how well Universal Credit is (not) working 🧵

ICYMI We published 2 excellent briefs on Universal Credit recently, feeding into the government's review of how well Universal Credit is (not) working 🧵

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Excellent briefing from Sarah and Julia --> A better fit: how Universal Credit can improve income stability for employees with fluctuating and non-monthly pay www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

My team at @citizensadvice.bsky.social is recruiting for a Policy Research Assistant. Come and join us! www.jobtrain.co.uk/citizensadvi...