As householders wait for their £324 “cost of living payment”, a meeting of the Cost of Living Crisis Campaign is…
BEDROOM TAX
Durkan welcomes protections against cruel Bedroom Tax
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has welcomed the long-overdue extension of protections against the Bedroom Tax. Mr Durkan submitted…
‘Welfare mitigations farce sums up dysfunctional SF/DUP-led Executive’
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan says the wrangling over the extension of welfare mitigations sums up the dysfunction of…
‘Families failed in sham fight over welfare mitigations’
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has said the Bedroom Tax will return to haunt people in the North. He…
Welfare reforms: Stormont agrees to extend mitigations
STORMONT Executive ministers have agreed to extend welfare mitigations in the North of Ireland for a further three years. The…
‘People power needed to reverse Universal Credit cut’
PEOPLE Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin has said that people power on a scale with the Poll Tax movement is…
‘Sinn Féin’s bedroom tax support comes back to haunt them’
SDLP Social Justice Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has said Sinn Féin’s support for the bedroom tax is once again putting…
Durkan calls out Sinn Féin’s state pension age hypocrisy
SDLP Social Justice Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has written to Sinn Féin Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey, asking her to outline…
Durkan urges Executive to close welfare mitigation loopholes
SDLP social justice spokesperson Mark H Durkan has urged the First and Deputy First Minister to urgently progress legislation to…
‘Failure to protect families hit by Bedroom Tax’
SDLP social justice spokesperson Mark H Durkan has expressed serious concerns that time is running out for adequate mitigations for…