4 d. ago Parents could be due over £212 in monthly payments to help with daily costs from April

Scottish Child Payment, Child Benefit and Best Start Grants can provide crucial financial support for families.

Economics

4 d. ago DWP benefits worth £1,900 a year not being claimed by over 970,000 older Brits

The charity Independent Age says older Brits applying for the four main pensioner benefits - Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance, Housing Benefit, and Council Tax reductions - would need to answer 450 questions to complete the applications

Economics

6 d. ago Older people may need to answer 450 questions before getting crucial financial support

Independent Age is calling for changes to ‘long and complex application forms for pensioner entitlements’.

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6 d. ago Pensioners must answer 450 questions in FOUR hour long process to get winter fuel payment, research reveals

Many older people, particularly those with poor health or no internet access, are losing out on financial support due to 'long and complex' application forms.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘It’s a better time than ever to be really famous’: why comedians are taking over TV gameshows

From Romesh Ranganathan to Lee Mack, big-name standups are increasingly fronting quiz shows. What’s causing the glut of comics?Going from telling jokes about your sex life in a room above a pub to asking someone in a studio what the capital of Malaysia is might not seem like an obvious career transition. It is, however, increasingly common to turn on your TV and see a comedian fronting a gameshow. In recent times, Romesh Ranganathan has hosted The Weakest Link; Michael McIntyre has hosted The Wheel; Lee Mack has hosted The 1% Club; and Jason Manford has hosted The Answer Run. When there are so many other people who would be glad of the work – full-time presenters; actors; Nigel Farage – why is the male-standup-hosting-a-quizshow such a mainstay of modern TV?Joel Dommett is likely as familiar to the general public for his hosting as for his comedy. He thinks the snobbery that used to exist in the comedy industry about gameshows and adverts has subsided a little. “Comedians nowadays c...

Culture

2 w. ago New Manchester United signing a vital part of plan to avoid PSR pain

Manchester United have hired Marc Armstrong from Paris Saint-Germain at a crucial time financially for the club

Politics

2 w. ago This is Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff

The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time. Ukrainian sovereignty is a cause close to rightwing heartsTiming is everything in politics. So when the leader of the opposition realised she was due to be making a speech heaping praise on Donald Trump, just as the president plunged her own country into a national security crisis, you might think even she would have hesitated.But seemingly nothing can keep Kemi Badenoch from a culture war, not even the threat of an actual war. So, at a rightwing conference in London on Monday morning, she duly ripped into corporate diversity policies, climate activism, Keir Starmer taking the knee four and a half years ago, and various other imagined threats to western civilisation that are not forcing Britain to consider deploying troops against them, before concluding triumphantly that when people ask her what difference a change of leader makes, her answer is, “Take a look at President Trump.”Gaby Hinsliff is ...

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