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Can you get universal credit if you receive a pension? Steve Webb replies

Can you get universal credit if you receive a pension? Steve Webb replies

by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Sep 1, 2020 | Daily Mail

I am struggling to understand why she can’t get a subsistence payment to cover mortgage/rent, food and basic living needs? Does the government want her to be homeless and out of work?

Rishi Sunak ‘is considering raising fuel duty by as much as 5p’ to pay nation’s Covid bill

Rishi Sunak ‘is considering raising fuel duty by as much as 5p’ to pay nation’s Covid bill

by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Sep 1, 2020 | Daily Mail

The Chancellor is looking at axing a ten year freeze on fuel duty in his autumn Budget, which would see prices at the pumps rise by 2p immediately in line with inflation.