Reporter @ Telegraph, cheap wit my own. All The Work You Shouldn’t Do is out now! 📚
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Ruby Cline retweeted
150,000 people get sickness benefits worth £5,000 a year - but the government has no idea why.
No diagnosis, no evidence on file - the government just hands out the money. Your money. £770 million of it.
This has to stop.
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EXC: Labour hands out £770m in benefits for ‘unknown’ health conditions
More than 150,000 claimants of sickness top-up had no recorded medical conditions last year
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Starmer: I will fight Burnham for leadership
🔴Follow live with @DominicPenna and I
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My two favourite things-trains & silly spending
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Labour accused of “burning money” for spending £36k to find out some people without cars use trains
Findings also include that some don’t travel by rail because they “don’t like travelling with others”
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Today was my first day as the @Telegraph 's newest news reporter!
Send stories, tips or gossip my way at ruby.cline@telegraph.co.uk.
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Ruby Cline retweeted
May 9
🗳️ Some councils could predict Britain’s political future
Our interactive map reveals how voters abandoned traditional party strongholds in one of the most dramatic local election results in decades
Explore the hotspots driving Britain’s political realignment ⬇️
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Almost one in 20 people who turned 18 in 2020 have been on Universal Credit their entire adulthood.
“I’d love to be young again,” my mother’s friend says wistfully.
“Back then, though. I wouldn’t want to be young now, God!”
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Ruby Cline retweeted
May 3
🔴 Young people stuck on benefits ‘scrapheap’ since pandemic
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How Covid left 24-year-olds on the ‘scrapheap’ – with no choice but a lifetime on benefits
Almost one in 20 of those who turned 18 during the pandemic have been on Universal Credit their entire adulthoods
🧵⤵️
@abreslin1
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More than nine in 10 UC claimants since lockdown measures ended in late 2022 were recorded as having “mental and behavioural disorders”, acc DWP figures.
A 22yo on health-based UC is less likely to get a job than someone in their 50s on the same benefit, Pat McFadden admitted.
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Benefits are "sticky", he wrote, announcing a package of job incentives for the young in March.
But the measures might be too late for a "locked out" year group of pandemic claimants.
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Apr 15
Streeting to tackle 'appalling' NHS medical misogyny culture
More than 500k people wait for gynaecology treatment as Health Sec promises to punish hospitals that 'gaslight' women
First joint byline with fantastic @lauradonnlee
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Ruby Cline retweeted
Apr 4
The front page of tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph:
'Trump gives Iran hellfire ultimatum'
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Ruby Cline retweeted
Sunday's TELEGRAPH: Trump gives Iran hellfire ultimatum #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Digital ‘self-service’ benefits would increase application volume by a third
Labour plans to do them anyway ⤵️
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