Ardent Archivist (@ardentarchivist.bsky.social)

UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills. People in the North hit the hardest. Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines. Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.

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Northern communities are bearing the brunt of DWP and water company deductions The DWP is allowing water companies to go after benefit claimants living in the most deprived areas to collect debt for water bills https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/12/dwp-northern

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