GMLC 2024 General Election Charter
The Election Charter below is Greater Manchester Law Centre’s perspective on what policy-makers could do in the next government to improve the lives of low-income residents of Greater Manchester. Greater…
Universal Credit is a new system being rolled out by the Government that will merge different benefits into a single monthly payment. The system is convoluted and ineffective, and delays in payments have left many vulnerable people with not enough to live on and facing the threat of eviction and homelessness. We at the GMLC refuse to be complicit in the Universal Credit roll-out and are campaigning for it to be halted. On this page you can find all the latest news related to Universal Credit.
Harsher benefit sanctions don’t work: DWP releases suppressed report
As the government pushes for an even harsher benefit sanctions regime, GMLC campaign volunteer Tammy Ho writes on the DWP’s recent report into sanctions’ (in)effectiveness. A report published by…
Timson: judicial review finds DWP deductions from benefits unlawful
GMLC campaign volunteer Eleni Founta summarises the recent case of Timson, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022], in which a disabled woman…
APPG’s Long Covid report and findings: do they go far enough?
On 30 November 2021, GMLC gave expert evidence on Long Covid, employment and welfare rights to the APPG on Coronavirus. Latest estimates suggest 1.5m people in the UK are living…
Algorithmic injustice: an interview with Rick Burgess from GMCDP
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) are currently taking legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to highlight the potential discrimination in their algorithm for detecting…
What would you change about the benefits system?
We are collecting information from our wider networks about their priorities for changing the benefits system. We are looking for people who have had recent experience of using the benefits…
GMLC won £1 million for our benefits clients in 2021!
Figures from the end of the year showed that GMLC won over £1 million for benefits clients in 2021. This was mostly through our support with appeals, where clients can…
Benefits ‘fraud and error’: four stories that don’t fit the narrative
Kate Bradley and Leyya Kitmitto outline the problems with the category ‘fraud and error’, and highlight four cases that disturb the usual narratives about benefit fraud. Recently, the Department for…
Stop the £20 Universal Credit Cut!
GMLC Director Jason Tetley writes on the urgent need to stop the Universal Credit cut next week. On Tuesday 6 October, the Universal Credit uplift ends, plunging an additional half…
Citizens Advice survey on those moving from legacy benefits to Universal Credit
Citizens Advice is doing some research to understand people’s experiences of moving from legacy benefits (such as Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit, and Working and…