Posts

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