Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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1 in 10 working age people in Bedford on disability benefits

Latest figures show 24,478 emergency food parcels were handed out to people in need across its 10 locations in Bedford in the year to March – up from 21,817 the year before, and the highest since records began in 2017-18

Record number of emergency food parcels provided at food banks in Bedford

1,534 people in Bedford are claiming ESA due to mental or behavioural conditions as of last summer – followed by 'musculoskeletal' diseases

More than 1,500 people receiving benefits due to mental health problems

Raising the value of benefits would have been preferable to sending out a string of lump sum cost of living payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boosts an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Cost of living payments are ‘ineffective sticking plaster’, warns IFS

Bedford Foodbank

Record number of food parcels handed out in Bedford

In May, there were 17,256 Universal Credit claimants in Bedford – that figure has grown by 89% since February 2020

More than 17,000 people in Bedford could lose "lifeline" Universal Credit boost

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Research reveals most urgent issues facing Bedford and Kempston residents

Office for National Statistics data shows 6,850 people were claiming out-of-work benefits as of mid-January, down from 6,925 in December last year

Dip in demand for out-of-work benefits in Bedford

ONS data shows 7,430 people were claiming out-of-work benefits in Bedford as of September 10, compared to just 3,525 in early March

The number of Bedford people claiming unemployment benefit has gone up by thousa...

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Universal Credit payments could be decreased in April 2021 - here's why

Office for National Statistics data shows 7,405 people were claiming out-of-work benefits in Bedford

Bedford unemployment benefit claims still far higher than before coronavirus
Data shows 7,405 people were claiming out-of-work benefits in the town
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In Bedford, 17.2 per centof children under 16 were living in families with relative low incomes in 2018-19

Rise in children living in families with low incomes in Bedford

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Revealed: Harpur has Bedford's highest Covid-19 death toll

Department for Work and Pension figures on Universal Credit

Thousands of people in Bedford already on troubled Universal Credit system

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