Over the past few years successive governments have imposed stinging welfare cuts. This has left most vulnerable in our community unable to afford the most basic essentials. At the GMLC we actively campaign for reversing these cuts and fight on behalf of those affected by providing access to free face-to-face legal advice. On this page you can find all the latest news on our campaigning and services relating to welfare benefits.
GMLC campaign volunteer Ella O’Sullivan reviews journalist John Pring’s new book The Department: How A Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence (2024). Content Warning: mentions of mental…
Today, GMLC releases our new research report, ‘Scrap the cap: the benefit cap in 2024 and why it needs to go‘. Following the release of the new benefit cap statistics…
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…
This year, Greater Manchester Law Centre (GMLC) was proud to be nominated for a LawWorks Student Pro Bono Award for Best Contribution by a Team of Students. For many years,…
In 2023, GMLC helped the residents of Greater Manchester obtain £1.9 million in unclaimed or wrongly refused benefits. This is our highest amount in a single year since GMLC was…
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…
As the cost-of-living crisis hit and energy prices rose in April 2022, the government launched a campaign to encourage low-income pensioners to apply for Pension Credit, which is a form…
GMLC’s Welfare Benefits Supervisor Dan Manville reacts to the April 2023 budget announced yesterday, looking at proposed welfare reforms and what it might mean for benefits claimants, including those who…
In December 2022, Greater Manchester Law Centre, in association with the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA), conducted a survey into recent delays in processing Pension Credit claims. Here,…
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…