Cookies on our website

We use essential cookies to make our website work properly.

We'd also like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and to understand how you use our website. This helps us improve our services for you.

Some additional cookies come from other websites. These cookies help us show you things from those sites, like videos.

You can find out more about the cookies we use.

Choose cookies

You’ve accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time

You’ve rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time

Skip to main content
  • Cymraeg
  • Sign in
  • Benefits
  • Work
  • Debt and money
  • Consumer
  • Housing
  • Family
  • Law and courts
  • Immigration
  • Health
  • More from us
  • Home
  • More from us
  • Policy research
  • Benefits and work
  • Benefits and work blogs

Benefits and work blogs

Empowerment or Enforcement? Redefining employment support for benefit claimants

21 March 2024

The Shared Accommodation Rate is letting young people down

29 February 2024

The cost-of-living crisis isn’t ending, so why might the Household Support Fund be?

3 January 2024

5 reasons a higher minimum wage could be bad news for people claiming benefits

18 December 2023

Decoding the Autumn Statement

20 November 2023

The hidden housing tax: Local Housing Allowance

27 October 2023

Benefits must rise in line with inflation at the Autumn Statement

20 October 2023

What can the UK learn from Germany’s welfare sanctions reforms?

4 September 2023

It’s time to rethink Council Tax Support

14 August 2023

The youth penalty: lower pay, lower benefits, higher sanctions

7 June 2023

  • First
  • Previous
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Next

Is there anything wrong with this page? Let us know

Advice

  • Benefits
  • Work
  • Debt and money
  • Consumer
  • Housing
  • Family
  • Law and courts
  • Immigration
  • Health

Resources and tools

  • Adviser resources
  • Education resources
  • Site search

More from us

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Support us
  • Annual reports
  • Complaints
  • Media
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Policy research
  • Volunteering
  • Jobs

About this site

  • Accessibility statement
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy and cookies

Copyright ©2025 Citizens Advice. All rights reserved.

Citizens Advice is an operating name of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux. Registered charity number 279057. VAT number 726 0202 76. Company limited by guarantee. Registered number 01436945 England. Registered office: Citizens Advice, 3rd Floor, 1 Easton Street, London, WC1X 0DW

Fundraising Regulator registered