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Tag - benefits

Old people at Tower Bridge (credit Kenza Benaouda via Unsplash)
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More than 100k London pensioners at risk of losing winter fuel allowance despite being eligible

16 October 2024
Older person living in a care home (credit My Home Life)
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Enfield pensioners urged to check if they’re eligible for pension credit

26 September 2024
Sadiq Khan speaking to children on a visit to a primary school
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Khan says he hopes two-child benefit cap will be removed ASAP

24 July 2024
Enfield has fourth-highest number of UC claimants in London
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Record number of Universal Credit claimants in Enfield

22 January 2024
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers the Autumn Statement and (inset) Enfield Council leader Nesil Caliskan
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Hunt’s housing benefit boost welcomed but Enfield Council leader says ‘immense financial pressure’ remains

22 November 2023
Labour AM Sem Moema (credit Noah Vickers/LDRS)
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Housing benefit freeze causing ‘significant hardship’ in London

19 September 2023
Sadiq Khan (left) and Sir Keir Starmer (right)
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Khan calls for Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap as party row escalates

19 July 2023
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Benefit fraud team ‘unfairly targeting’ Bulgarian Roma people in Edmonton

10 February 2022
Pounds and pence stacked up on a table
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Universal Credit cut will hit borough hard

4 October 2021
Housing charity Shelter has run a campaign to end discrimination against housing benefit recipients
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Estate agents benefits ban ‘discrimination’

18 October 2020
Volunteer picking items from food parcel list
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Warning as foodbank use rises

13 December 2018
Universal Credit poster
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Fears grow over impact of Universal Credit rollout

4 November 2018

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Council struggling to empty Edmonton tower blocks due to be decommissioned

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Cabinet member for housing Ayten Guzel (inset) and Enfield Travelodge, one of the hotels frequently used for housing homeless families from 2022-2024
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Council confirms no hotels now being used to house homeless Enfield families

18 September 2025
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Water main discovery dampens hope of 10,000 homes at Meridian Water

30 October 2025
Crews Hill and (inset) Steve Reed MP
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More than 20,000 homes proposed for Enfield ‘new town’ by government

28 September 2025
St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls in Enfield Town
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Six Enfield Catholic schools set to join academy trust

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