New and existing Universal Credit claimants can apply for an emergency loan - here's how

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) spoke to more than 600 people who have recently applied for Universal Credit (UC) and discovered that seven in ten found the process difficult.

Former England captain James Graham has been left annoyed and embarrassed after seeing Australia and New Zealand pull out of the World Cup.

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2021 New York Film Festival. “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will kick off NYFF 59 with a screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay has put in place the building blocks for its latest adaptation of Lego Masters, inking a deal with Kiwi broadcaster TVNZ to make a local version of the show. The deal comes as Lucas Green, Banijay’s global head of content operations, talked up a “perfect storm” for unscripted shows globally.

poverty. They also called for the permanent uplift to apply to so-called “legacy” benefits.

iOS - Android That was the case when one eagle-eyed Lanarkshire resident spotted the 267 bus service to Blantyre motoring down the area currently being used as 59th Street in New York.Excitement built over the weekend as Scots began to catch glimpses of Hollywood stars Boyd Holbrook, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen.However, the glamorous scenes were "ruined" thanks to the Blantyre bus travelling through the elaborate Big Apple set.The Twitter user shared his view of Renfield Street which

Grado has been spotted joking around with former Hoops boss Neil Lennon in Glasgow. The pair were snapped outside a pub on Ashton Lane in the city’s swanky west end yesterday.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is introducing a change this month that will have an impact on hundreds of thousands of Universal Credit claimants. There are more than four million self-employed people in the UK, with 746,000 relying on financial support from the DWP to top up their income.Universal Credit payments for the self-employed are based on what's called the Minimum Income Floor, a policy that was suspended during the coronavirus pandemic.

poverty rate than the average for independent countries of Scotland’s size and has had the worst or second-worst poverty rate in every single year since UK data was first recorded in 2002.

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to drop the £20 uplift to Universal Credit (UC) will leave vulnerable families struggling. UC payments were increased in the wake of the covid pandemic but Tory ministers now plan to remove this at the end of September – a move already branded “indefensible” by the Scottish Government.

Universal Credit (UC) is on the rise. According to the latest Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) figures the number of people being given a choice about how their UC is paid rose by 175,190 in just five months.

Enter Shikari have announced plans for a new live film.‘Live At Vada’, was filmed recently at Vada Studios where the band recorded their last album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible‘ and features live tracks from that record and some rarities.It will be available to view for free on July 16 and there will be four different showings on the day depending on the location which include London, New York, Los Angeles & Sydney.You can view a trailer for the film below and tickets are available

whose 2002 visit to Easterhouse in Glasgow inspired his much derided reforms to the benefits system - has signed a letter to Rishi Sunak along with five other Conservative former work and pensions secretaries. The group warned the UK Chancellor that a failure to keep the uplift in place permanently would “damage living standards, health and opportunities” for those that “need our support most as we emerge from the pandemic”.

Wally Funk launches into space later this month aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, she will, at 82, be the oldest astronaut ever.But she was nearly the youngest.The New Mexico native was 22 when she joined the Mercury 13 program, a group of intrepid women who, back in 1961, underwent the same training as the Mercury 7, NASA’s all-male crew of original astronauts.The women were never allowed to go into space, and hardly written about.

It’s official! Jason Sudeikis is moving on with Keeley Hazell after his split from Olivia Wilde, Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, June 28.

Jason Sudeikis took his relationship with his "Ted Lasso" co-star Keeley Hazell public by hitting the town together in New York City on Sunday. Sudeikis, 45, and Hazell, 34, linked arms and gave each other a hug as they ventured out with big smiles on their faces in photos obtained by People on Monday.

Array Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s production company, has picked up North America, UK and Ireland rights on the feature Cousins, helmed by Māori filmmaking duo Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith.