Click on the links below to read our blog posts.
- Housing First – Bench’s CEO explains the programme
- No Fixed Abode – The problems of not having an official address
- Homeless Women – understanding women’s support needs
- Medical Assessments – distressing environments for vulnerable people
- Medical Reports – the often false and unfair results of assessments
- Housing and Benefits Advice: A Typical Week – see what a Bench advice worker tackles on a weekly basis
- Prison and Homelessness – ex-prisoners are not getting the support they need to integrate into society
- Universal Credit and Computer Illiteracy – what happens when you need benefits but can’t use a computer? The limits of Universal Credit
- The “Tough on Crime” Rhetoric – are more police and prison spaces the answers to crime in the UK?
- Welfare Benefits: The Domino Effect – the disastrous consequences that one change in benefits can have.
- Our Guide to Helping Rough Sleepers in December – how to help homeless people survive the winter
- Proving you’re Disabled Enough – how difficult it can be to prove you are eligible for disability benefits, and the effect this has on well being.
- When the benefits system goes wrong – the effect of a broken system on vulnerable clients
- Do people choose to be homeless? – challenging misconceptions about homelessness
- Homelessness after the pandemic – what happens to the homeless population when emergency measures to house them end?
- Helping rough sleepers in summer – how you can help look out for rough sleepers in the hotter months
- What coronavirus reveals about our view of the welfare state – with more people claiming benefits than ever, how has our approach to the benefits system been affected?
- What Care Work Matters, Even more than you Think – thousands of care workers are living in poverty.
