Social Security - Stevenage Constituency Labour Party

Labours Manifesto for Hertfordshire 2021

A prosperous, caring and socially just county for all our residents. For the last 4 years the County Council Labour Group has done its best to hold to account a majority Tory Council often reluctant to take on its own government over the most serious of issues: For us…

5600 jobs at risk in Stevenage unless Chancellor delivers “smart” furlough scheme as part of emergency action.

New analysis by the Labour Party estimates that 5600 people were still furloughed by their employer in early February in Stevenage. Seven months after Sunak launched his ‘Plan for Jobs’ last July, 3175 people are claiming out of work benefits and 5600 people are still on furlough in Stevenage. The…

Scrapping Universal Credit and Social Insecurity

Social security should reduce poverty not bolster it. It is there to support people in times of need and claiming should not come at the price of being forced to subsist on an inadequate income. Social security should therefore guarantee a minimum standard of living based on need and benchmarked…

Social insecurity during and after the pandemic.

Many households in Stevenage have now received their first ever Universal Credit payment, and many more are still waiting for the cash to arrive. Those who have been paid will now be acutely aware just how brutal the five-week wait is. Many will have asked for advances and, as a…

Hertfordshire’s youth offending team has had their funding slashed by 49% per cent under Tories and Lib Dems

Figures uncovered by the Labour Party show that the Tories and Lib Dems have cut the Hertfordshire youth offending team’s (YOT) funding by £679,980 since 2010 – meaning cuts of 49 per cent. Nationally, the Tories have slashed central government funding for youth offending teams by over half from £145m…