January 28, 2014
Come to an info and skill-sharing day in London on 15 February, 10.45am-5.30pm, Maiden Lane Community Centre near Kings Cross. Directions here. Getting your welfare rights is about a lot more than just knowing your welfare rights. Across the UK, people are getting together to support each other and pushing back workfare, standing up to sanctions, wrong decisions, and insecure […]
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August 15, 2013
On 12 August 2013 the final stage of the rollout of the government’s benefit cap started. The cap has been ‘trialled’ in Haringey and three other London boroughs, since April. In July, it then spread to areas which had low numbers of households affected. Now local authority areas with over 276 affected households will have […]
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June 6, 2013
Homes for Haringey new target in campaign against compulsory unpaid work DIY chain Homebase has withdrawn from a controversial government scheme for jobseekers after a series of protests outside their store in Harringay Green Lanes. The protests by Haringey Solidarity Group and others (1) targeted the ‘workfare’ scheme, under which some people claiming Jobseekers? Allowance […]
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June 4, 2013
Homes for Haringey is the borough’s arms-length management organisation, set up to manage council housing. Tenants on their estates have found out that local unemployed people are being forced to work on their estates for no pay and with no workplace rights. Come along for a protest Tues 4 June, 6pm at the Homes […]
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May 10, 2013
On Thursday 10 May, over 15 people from Haringey and Brent travelled to Edgware Road to hold a protest outside the main offices of Genesis Housing Association – a major social landlord in the borough. In April, the Conservative-Liberal coalition trialed a benefit cap on 4 London boroughs, one of which is Haringey. This has […]
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May 9, 2013
When the government launched its benefit cap trial in four London boroughs last month, Haringey Housing Action Group, Haringey Solidarity Group and others were at the DWP office in Stratford on 15th April to protest against the cap and to call for it to be scrapped. 28 days later, with the effects of the cap […]
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April 30, 2013
This is a statement from Paul Nicholson from Taxpayers Against Poverty: I am refusing to pay my council tax in support of the many people in the uk suffering under the catastrophic and very unfair benefit cuts and caps, who are also charged a council tax they cannot pay. This is a personal decision for […]
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April 6, 2013
The benefit cap is due to start on 15th April in Haringey, Enfield, Bromley and Croydon, before being rolled out nationwide in the summer. These four trial boroughs were apparently chosen because one office processes all their benefit claims. On the day of its introduction, we are asking opponents of the benefit cap from all […]
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March 12, 2013
Haringey, Enfield, Bromley and Croydon have been chosen by the government to be used as a testing ground for their Overall Benefit Cap. People living with three or more dependent children will be most likely to be affected, facing cuts in housing benefit of up to £400 a week. But it will affect many others […]
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February 12, 2013
Thirteen of the 19 wards in Haringey are likely to be at risk from fuel poverty. One in four households in the UK are choosing between heating and eating this winter, as fuel bills hit record highs. But the government keeps cutting and the profits of the Big Six energy companies keep rising.Meanwhile, the government […]
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