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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de00879f73b3", "title": "Q: Should councils be allowed to drive homeless families to breakdown?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/07/q-should-councils-be-allowed-to-drive-homeless-families-to-breakdown/", "published_at": "2026-07-21T06:55:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de0087d85fd8", "title": "Is Newham council evicting people into red alert summer heat?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/07/is-newham-council-evicting-people-into-red-alert-summer-heat/", "published_at": "2026-07-08T14:58:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de0087de9a24", "title": "Hackney Greens fought eviction of disabled boy before May. Now they’re in power – and the eviction is going ahead", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/07/hackney-greens-fought-eviction-of-disabled-boy-before-may-now-theyre-in-power-and-the-eviction-is-going-ahead/", "published_at": "2026-07-02T08:36:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de0088345b3d", "title": "Newham council forcing people in temporary housing to move to much worse housing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/06/newham-council-threatens-people-in-temporary-housing-into-worse-housing/", "published_at": "2026-06-18T12:28:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de0088c50adc", "title": "People in need ask AI for help because councils and the DWP are useless", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/06/people-in-need-ask-ai-for-help-because-councils-and-the-dwp-are-useless/", "published_at": "2026-06-02T16:29:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de008982cfaf", "title": "Disabled ex-services guy must crawl to the toilet in non-adapted temporary housing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/05/disabled-ex-services-guy-must-crawl-to-the-toilet-in-non-adapted-temporary-housing/", "published_at": "2026-05-19T07:50:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de008a576853", "title": "How the government and the DWP made PIP cuts on the hoof", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/04/how-the-government-and-the-dwp-made-pip-cuts-on-the-hoof/", "published_at": "2026-04-14T08:22:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de008a6be8ee", "title": "Interview with a Homerton paediatric doctor: Hackney council’s housing team is putting a disabled boy at grave risk", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/03/interview-with-a-homerton-paediatric-doctor-hackney-councils-housing-team-is-putting-a-disabled-boy-at-grave-risk/", "published_at": "2026-03-24T18:57:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de008a8d169b", "title": "Proving an autistic boy has meltdowns by prodding him into one", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/03/proving-an-autistic-boy-has-meltdowns-by-prodding-him-into-one/", "published_at": "2026-03-11T14:25:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08793-fbb8-711c-9bd0-de008b575b1c", "title": "Hackney council will evict a disabled child this Friday. This is why progressives hate Labour.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/03/hackney-council-will-evict-a-disabled-child-this-friday-this-is-why-progressives-hate-labour/", "published_at": "2026-03-04T13:55:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-97790330d50d", "title": "Harassment by councils when you’re trying keep a disabled boy housed", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/02/harassment-by-councils-when-youre-trying-keep-a-disabled-boy-housed/", "published_at": "2026-02-24T07:23:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-977903b55db3", "title": "If you don’t succeed at evicting a disabled autistic boy from his council home…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/02/if-you-dont-succeed-at-evicting-a-disabled-autistic-boy-from-his-council-home/", "published_at": "2026-02-16T13:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-977903e4c64d", "title": "Tomorrow Hackney council evicts a disabled child and his family", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/02/tomorrow-hackney-council-evicts-a-disabled-child-and-his-family/", "published_at": "2026-02-09T13:34:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-9779043731af", "title": "Why put a disabled kid in costly temporary housing when his family could stay in their council house?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/02/why-put-a-disabled-kid-in-costly-temporary-housing-when-his-family-could-stay-in-a-council-flat/", "published_at": "2026-02-04T07:49:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-97790499e3da", "title": "Do too many people claim PIP for mental health problems?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2026/01/do-too-many-people-claim-pip-for-mental-health-problems/", "published_at": "2026-01-15T12:30:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-977904d836cb", "title": "No nationalism here: Trashing benefit claimants is a global sport", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/12/no-nationalism-here-trashing-benefit-claimants-is-a-global-sport/", "published_at": "2025-12-08T14:54:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-977904e6b46b", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/11/back-soon-22/", "published_at": "2025-11-26T11:21:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-9779050b5f31", "title": "Fit for work? The DWP sure isn’t.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/10/fit-for-work-dwp-sure-isnt/", "published_at": "2025-10-22T10:57:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-97790607fedd", "title": "ANOTHER leaked email telling support workers not to help disabled housing and benefits claimants", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/10/another-leaked-email-telling-support-workers-not-to-help-disabled-housing-and-benefits-claimants/", "published_at": "2025-10-07T15:42:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb47-35a4-71bd-99b5-97790656e4d9", "title": "Leaked email: Council tells NHS staff to stop writing rehousing support letters for families with disabled children", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/09/leaked-email-ccouncil-tells-nhs-staff-to-stop-writing-rehousing-support-letters-for-families-with-disabled-children/", "published_at": "2025-09-24T18:40:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da406ecd1", "title": "We’ve shut your benefit claim with no warning at all – how the #DWP does #disability", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/09/weve-shut-your-claim-with-no-warning-at-all-how-the-dwp-does-disability/", "published_at": "2025-09-08T12:18:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da4148ca3", "title": "Labour’s coercive control of people who claim benefits", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/08/labours-coercive-control-of-people-who-claim-benefits/", "published_at": "2025-08-04T11:03:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da4bd1bcb", "title": "The benefits system actually causes serious mental health problems", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/07/the-benefits-system-actually-causes-serious-mental-health-problems/", "published_at": "2025-07-15T07:59:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da5420201", "title": "Liz Kendall will protect disabled people who are “most” in need from benefit cuts? Do me a favour.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/06/liz-kendall-will-protect-disabled-people-who-are-most-in-need-from-benefit-cuts-do-me-a-favour/", "published_at": "2025-06-17T12:51:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da58b7930", "title": "The benefits heist: how sick and disabled people have paid the price for the anti-welfare craze", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/06/the-benefits-heist-how-sick-and-disabled-people-have-paid-the-price-for-the-anti-welfare-craze/", "published_at": "2025-06-02T11:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da68137e2", "title": "#Disability benefits have already been destroyed, Liz friggn Kendall", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/05/disability-benefits-have-already-been-destroyed-liz-friggn-kendal/", "published_at": "2025-05-07T08:06:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da68a338d", "title": "Who voted for this – podcast", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2025/01/who-voted-for-this/", "published_at": "2025-01-28T17:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da76ac191", "title": "New podcast: housing, autism and unbelievably bad councils. Oh yes.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2024/11/new-podcast-housing-autism-and-very-unhelpful-councils/", "published_at": "2024-11-08T17:06:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da865686d", "title": "Bleeding more cash out of homeless people", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/10/bleeding-more-cash-out-of-homeless-people/", "published_at": "2023-10-10T14:24:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb55-df4d-72f9-8742-6d3da88ab1b0", "title": "Temporary housing? – not for the cockroaches", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/08/temporary-housing-not-for-the-cockroaches/", "published_at": "2023-08-27T10:56:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da8ebc2cef", "title": "When your Uber or delivery driver’s kids are being eaten alive by vermin", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/08/when-your-uber-or-delivery-drivers-kids-are-being-eaten-alive-by-vermin/", "published_at": "2023-08-21T21:03:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da8f6e759b", "title": "Your Newham Get Me Out Of Here Bushbash Challenge – rising to a slug infestation", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/08/your-newham-get-me-out-of-here-bushbash-challenge-rising-to-a-slug-infestation/", "published_at": "2023-08-08T08:45:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da8fb890b1", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/05/back-soon-21/", "published_at": "2023-05-30T17:19:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da90379b8e", "title": "Why you can’t rely on getting a sympathetic DWP work coach", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/04/why-you-cant-rely-on-getting-a-sympathetic-dwp-work-coach/", "published_at": "2023-04-10T08:35:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da90ed9d4d", "title": "Jeremy Hunt: curing old age and disability one cadaver at a time", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/03/jeremy-hunt-curing-old-age-and-disability-one-cadaver-at-a-time/", "published_at": "2023-03-16T13:20:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da91d48649", "title": "Why universal credit caseworkers strike", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/02/why-universal-credit-caseworkers-strike/", "published_at": "2023-02-23T13:53:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da9287fa40", "title": "Taking bets on when this council block will collapse", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/02/taking-bets-on-when-this-council-block-will-collapse/", "published_at": "2023-02-01T15:46:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da92d9f5ef", "title": "Opportunity knocks! – if you have a home and front door, etc", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2023/01/homeless-but-have-children-with-potential-for-something-better-forget-it/", "published_at": "2023-01-15T14:49:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da92e31db9", "title": "Back in the New Year", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/12/back-in-the-new-year-2/", "published_at": "2022-12-23T08:23:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5b-6659-70e4-abc2-46da93e0ef83", "title": "Is the idea to find out how much cold poorer people can take?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/12/is-the-idea-to-find-out-how-much-cold-poorer-people-can-take/", "published_at": "2022-12-14T09:37:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2e-7230-adcd-349c324ed6fb", "title": "Do migrants feel separation from family less or something", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/12/do-migrants-feel-separation-from-family-less-or-something/", "published_at": "2022-12-07T09:09:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc549870fc", "title": "Update on mould shocker & the bucket for a toilet at Brassett Point estate", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/11/update-on-mould-shocker-the-bucket-for-a-toilet-at-brassett-point-estate/", "published_at": "2022-11-24T17:52:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc557b6453", "title": "Can’t use your toilet because of sewerage and water leaks? Have a bucket", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/11/cant-use-your-toilet-because-of-sewerage-and-water-leaks-have-a-bucket/", "published_at": "2022-11-21T12:53:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc560f5fa2", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/11/back-soon-20/", "published_at": "2022-11-17T10:27:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc561f4e89", "title": "Sanctioned because you had covid… Great.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/11/sanctioned-because-you-had-covid-great/", "published_at": "2022-11-10T09:29:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc566420a6", "title": "Good news: the council found a flat for you. Bad news: disabled people such as yourself can’t get to it", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/10/good-news-the-council-found-a-flat-for-you-bad-news-disabled-people-such-as-yourself-cant-get-to-it/", "published_at": "2022-10-30T10:35:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc56ce92c4", "title": "Austerity the sequel: how to rub out sick and disabled people who survived the first round", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/10/austerity-the-sequel-how-to-rub-out-sick-and-disabled-people-who-survived-the-first-round/", "published_at": "2022-10-20T08:54:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc5703434f", "title": "Homeless and being tortured by your council? Great, isn’t it.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/10/homeless-and-being-tortured-by-your-council-good-isnt-it/", "published_at": "2022-10-11T12:56:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc575d29b8", "title": "DWP: Are you poor and over 60? Get to work or drop dead. We’re here to help etc", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/10/dwp-are-you-poor-and-over-60-get-to-work-and-or-drop-dead/", "published_at": "2022-10-02T11:04:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb63-6a2f-7232-8be8-43bc578d8fda", "title": "Does Boris Johnson have to wait 6 months and more for universal credit since he lost his job", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/09/does-boris-johnson-have-to-wait-6-months-and-more-for-universal-credit-since-he-lost-his-job/", "published_at": "2022-09-19T09:28:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-27097f108664", "title": "Sanctions for people who need them least and struggle the most. Let’s hear it for the DWP!", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/09/sanctions-for-people-who-need-them-least-and-struggle-the-most-lets-hear-it-for-the-dwp/", "published_at": "2022-09-15T08:50:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-27097fe1f451", "title": "Disabled? Your council has decided you’re not any more. Praise the lord! and find your own housing.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/09/disabled-your-council-has-decided-youre-not-any-more-praise-the-lord-and-find-your-own-housing/", "published_at": "2022-09-02T07:01:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-2709803e598c", "title": "DWP: we can send you on a useless course or on hopeless “work experience.” Let’s do both.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/08/dwp-we-can-send-you-on-a-useless-course-or-on-hopeless-work-experience-lets-do-both/", "published_at": "2022-08-27T12:46:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270980c9fec2", "title": "DWP: we are clawing back £6k you don’t owe and can’t pay. We rule.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/08/dwp-we-are-clawing-back-6k-you-dont-owe-and-cant-pay-we-rule/", "published_at": "2022-08-13T11:59:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270981073f51", "title": "Do letting agents discriminate against benefit claimants up north or are they as shite as in London", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/05/do-letting-agents-discriminate-against-benefit-claimants-up-north-or-are-they-as-shite-as-london/", "published_at": "2022-05-24T16:33:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270981e48c2c", "title": "Thoughts on the violence with which Tories punish benefit claimants who break rules. Don’t think many claimants even get a party out of it", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/04/a-bit-on-the-violence-with-which-tories-punish-benefit-claimants-who-break-rules-dont-think-many-get-a-party-out-of-it-either/", "published_at": "2022-04-14T12:57:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270982172e51", "title": "Do letting agents still discriminate against benefit claimants? Of course not! Well – kind of. Well – yes.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/04/do-letting-agents-still-discriminate-against-benefit-claimants-of-course-not-well-kind-of-well-yes/", "published_at": "2022-04-03T20:43:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270982e364ae", "title": "Missing universal credit payments, unanswered journals – give it up for the forever useless DWP", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/03/missing-universal-credit-payments-unanswered-journals-give-it-up-for-the-forever-useless-dwp/", "published_at": "2022-03-25T12:10:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-270983d03026", "title": "Begging a council not to evict you as you’re about to give birth. Behold! – the war against women", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2022/03/begging-a-council-not-to-evict-you-even-as-youre-about-to-give-birth-behold-the-war-against-women/", "published_at": "2022-03-15T21:44:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb69-7c3d-70b6-b772-2709848e2d8f", "title": "Site maintenance", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/10/site-maintenance/", "published_at": "2020-10-12T11:42:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ac24f01d", "title": "Link to download of my book", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/09/new-link-to-download-of-my-book/", "published_at": "2020-09-06T09:17:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ac2eb4de", "title": "Nurses and NHS workers will protest for pay on 8 August. They should be rewarded with money as well as clapping…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/08/nurses-and-nhs-workers-will-protest-for-pay-on-8-august-time-to-support-them-with-a-bit-more-than-clapping/", "published_at": "2020-08-06T05:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ac7ca968", "title": "It’s time to pay careworkers proper sick pay. Stop trying to paper over the f*cking cracks", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/07/its-time-to-pay-careworkers-proper-sick-pay-stop-trying-to-paper-over-the-fcking-cracks/", "published_at": "2020-07-19T10:27:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ad2893d0", "title": "Question: How did carework end up in such dire straits? Answer: outsourcing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/06/question-how-did-carework-end-up-in-such-dire-straits-answer-outsourcing/", "published_at": "2020-06-25T11:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ad4c7c45", "title": "Homelessness: the plague that voters are happy to live with", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/04/homelessness-the-plague-that-voters-are-happy-to-live-with/", "published_at": "2020-04-29T08:24:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ae23aa73", "title": "Sacrificing sick, disabled and elderly people for economic gain? This ain’t exactly new", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/04/sacrificing-sick-disabled-and-elderly-people-for-economic-gain-this-aint-exactly-new/", "published_at": "2020-04-19T12:28:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9ae525558", "title": "Has government actually thought about help for people stuck in homelessness hostels and cramped emergency places?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/04/has-government-actually-thought-about-help-for-people-stuck-in-homelessness-hostels-and-cramped-emergency-places/", "published_at": "2020-04-14T11:16:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9af35d674", "title": "All you need to force the DWP to talk civilly to benefit claimants is a plague. Who knew?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/04/all-you-need-to-force-the-dwp-to-talk-half-civilly-to-benefit-claimants-is-a-plague-who-knew/", "published_at": "2020-04-11T11:34:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9af846b2b", "title": "There’s no way homeless people can isolate in hostels. Families share rooms and beds", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/03/theres-no-way-homeless-people-can-isolate-in-hostels-allow-me-to-show-you/", "published_at": "2020-03-30T11:10:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6d-9c02-72b2-afb6-49a9b0365023", "title": "Freedom vs health", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2020/03/freedom-vs-health/", "published_at": "2020-03-20T13:15:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2c9ef150", "title": "Labour lost. Stop the infighting. People can’t afford lefty petulance.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/12/labour-lost-get-over-it-people-cant-afford-lefty-petulance/", "published_at": "2019-12-14T12:01:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2ce89960", "title": "Apologies for being a Remainer – more stories from the jobcentre", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/11/apologies-for-being-a-remainer-more-stories-from-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2019-11-25T11:27:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2cf9d36e", "title": "Why a private rented flat means poverty forever", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/10/why-a-private-rented-flat-means-poverty-forever/", "published_at": "2019-10-15T10:45:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2d5b0519", "title": "Save up for rent before you’re switched to Universal Credit, coz you won’t get money for 6 weeks", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/09/save-up-for-rent-before-youre-switched-to-universal-credit-coz-you-wont-get-money-for-6-weeks/", "published_at": "2019-09-16T12:34:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2e04073b", "title": "Staff: Universal Credit claimants go without money because support centres are woefully understaffed #UniversalCreditStrike", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/08/universalcredit-claimants-are-going-without-money-because-support-centres-are-woefully-understaffed-universalcreditstrike/", "published_at": "2019-08-27T21:01:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2ecd91f5", "title": "Northern remainers", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/08/northern-remainers/", "published_at": "2019-08-04T08:58:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a2fafb244", "title": "We’ve stopped your Universal Credit today without warning because you’re working without pay…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/07/weve-stopped-your-universal-credit-today-without-warning-because-youre-working-without-pay/", "published_at": "2019-07-17T13:56:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a304906cd", "title": "Blogging for July-August", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/07/blogging-for-july-august/", "published_at": "2019-07-02T09:13:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a30517db2", "title": "Good news: you’ve got a job. Bad news: you won’t be paid for two months", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/06/good-news-youve-got-a-job-bad-news-you-wont-be-paid-for-two-months/", "published_at": "2019-06-18T09:45:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb71-66ab-7065-8a33-273a309caa0e", "title": "Meanwhile, back at the jobcentre…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/06/meanwhile-back-at-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2019-06-12T13:47:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f5ce9fd3", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/06/back-soon-19/", "published_at": "2019-06-11T10:06:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f6c6a5da", "title": "We’ll find you intentionally homeless even though it’s our fault you’re homeless", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/well-find-you-intentionally-homeless-even-though-its-our-fault-youre-homeless/", "published_at": "2019-05-31T09:37:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f6fc847f", "title": "When women in absolute poverty are denied their kids, legal help and housing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/when-women-in-absolute-poverty-are-denied-their-kids-legal-help-and-housing/", "published_at": "2019-05-28T08:23:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f7f18b70", "title": "Single mothers are placed in terrible housing by councils. Then social services muscles in when the family falls apart because of the terrible housing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/single-mothers-are-placed-in-terrible-housing-by-councils-social-services-muscles-in-when-the-family-falls-apart-because-of-the-terrible-housing/", "published_at": "2019-05-20T10:51:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f85b375c", "title": "Found a job – but can’t afford childcare. Universal Credit won’t help up front. This is ridiculous", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/found-a-job-but-cant-afford-first-month-of-childcare-universal-credit-wont-help-up-front-this-is-ridiculous/", "published_at": "2019-05-10T10:52:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f87afc66", "title": "We know you’re homeless and dangerously depressed and anxious. Let’s push you over the edge", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/we-know-youre-homeless-and-dangerously-depressed-and-anxious-lets-push-you-over-the-edge/", "published_at": "2019-05-08T13:14:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f90968b7", "title": "Got a job and a chance to earn some money. Hope the DWP doesn’t wreck it… More interviews from the jobcentre", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/05/ive-got-a-job-and-a-chance-to-earn-some-money-hope-the-dwp-doesnt-wreck-it/", "published_at": "2019-05-06T11:46:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f95a2ec9", "title": "Decay like you wouldn’t believe – which century are we in?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/04/decay-like-you-wouldnt-believe-which-century-are-we-in/", "published_at": "2019-04-26T11:19:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556f9f1fa78", "title": "Back soon. Meanwhile – a few thoughts on the trainwreck that is council homelessness “help”…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/04/back-soon-meanwhile-a-few-thoughts-on-the-trainwreck-that-is-council-homelessness-help/", "published_at": "2019-04-23T08:22:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb74-d7d8-73ee-85f7-5556fa79ee04", "title": "You’re homeless. You should be grateful for a flat without furniture or a fridge or floor coverings… Suck it up", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/04/youre-homeless-you-should-be-grateful-for-a-flat-without-furniture-or-a-fridge-or-floor-coverings-suck-it-up/", "published_at": "2019-04-16T09:55:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffc1306e9", "title": "Homelessness and poverty while Brexit takes it all", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/04/homelessness-and-poverty-while-brexit-takes-it-all/", "published_at": "2019-04-09T09:05:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffcd3bb6c", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/03/back-soon-18/", "published_at": "2019-03-31T09:02:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffce11f59", "title": "Mayor apologises for letter which threatened to make a woman with serious mental health issues homeless. Now what.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/03/mayor-apologises-for-letter-which-threatened-to-make-a-woman-with-serious-mental-health-issues-homeless-now-what/", "published_at": "2019-03-24T12:48:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffdb092a7", "title": "PIP assessment recording: the PIP assessor who didn’t know what homelessness really was", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/03/pip-assessment-recording-the-pip-assessor-who-didnt-know-what-homelessness-really-was/", "published_at": "2019-03-18T07:33:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffe7080f1", "title": "Actually, Neil – the Universal Credit “system” for self employed people and variable incomes is shite", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/03/actually-neil-the-universal-credit-system-for-self-employed-people-and-variable-incomes-is-shite/", "published_at": "2019-03-11T11:27:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60ffe9b3a19", "title": "Get to the office or we’ll make you homeless: what’s the outcome of the council investigation into this threat?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/03/get-to-the-office-or-well-make-you-homeless-whats-the-outcome-of-the-council-investigation-into-this-threat/", "published_at": "2019-03-06T08:34:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60fff8c063d", "title": "Get to the office today or we’ll throw you off the homelessness list: how people with mental health issues are addressed", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/02/get-to-the-office-today-or-well-throw-you-off-the-housing-list-how-homeless-people-with-mental-health-issues-are-addressed/", "published_at": "2019-02-25T11:26:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b60fffaec92a", "title": "Do councils actually try to drive homeless mothers to breakdown so they can remove their kids?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/02/do-councils-actually-try-to-drive-homeless-mothers-to-breakdown-so-they-can-remove-their-kids/", "published_at": "2019-02-20T17:22:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b61000168375", "title": "Homeless mothers: we feel the ever-present threat of social services and losing our kids. That’s how they keep people quiet", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/02/homeless-mothers-we-feel-the-ever-present-threat-of-social-services-and-losing-our-kids-thats-how-they-keep-people-quiet/", "published_at": "2019-02-17T12:51:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-0919-72e9-bd5a-b61000eaff9c", "title": "Can I claim benefits when I’m homeless? Getting the feeling that people can’t find clear answers to this.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2019/02/can-i-claim-benefits-when-im-homeless-getting-the-feeling-that-people-cant-find-clear-answers-to-this/", "published_at": "2019-02-15T09:58:53+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Q: Should councils be allowed to drive homeless families to breakdown?original ↗
21 Jul 2026
Is Newham council evicting people into red alert summer heat?original ↗
8 Jul 2026
Hackney Greens fought eviction of disabled boy before May. Now they’re in power – and the eviction is going aheadoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Newham council forcing people in temporary housing to move to much worse housingoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
People in need ask AI for help because councils and the DWP are uselessoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Disabled ex-services guy must crawl to the toilet in non-adapted temporary housingoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
How the government and the DWP made PIP cuts on the hooforiginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Interview with a Homerton paediatric doctor: Hackney council’s housing team is putting a disabled boy at grave riskoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
Proving an autistic boy has meltdowns by prodding him into oneoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026
Hackney council will evict a disabled child this Friday. This is why progressives hate Labour.original ↗
4 Mar 2026
Harassment by councils when you’re trying keep a disabled boy housedoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
If you don’t succeed at evicting a disabled autistic boy from his council home…original ↗
16 Feb 2026
Tomorrow Hackney council evicts a disabled child and his familyoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Why put a disabled kid in costly temporary housing when his family could stay in their council house?original ↗
4 Feb 2026
Do too many people claim PIP for mental health problems?original ↗
15 Jan 2026

2025

No nationalism here: Trashing benefit claimants is a global sportoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
Back soonoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2025
Fit for work? The DWP sure isn’t.original ↗
22 Oct 2025
ANOTHER leaked email telling support workers not to help disabled housing and benefits claimantsoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2025
Leaked email: Council tells NHS staff to stop writing rehousing support letters for families with disabled childrenoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
We’ve shut your benefit claim with no warning at all – how the #DWP does #disabilityoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
Labour’s coercive control of people who claim benefitsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2025
The benefits system actually causes serious mental health problemsoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2025
Liz Kendall will protect disabled people who are “most” in need from benefit cuts? Do me a favour.original ↗
17 Jun 2025
The benefits heist: how sick and disabled people have paid the price for the anti-welfare crazeoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2025
#Disability benefits have already been destroyed, Liz friggn Kendalloriginal ↗
7 May 2025
Who voted for this – podcastoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025

2024

New podcast: housing, autism and unbelievably bad councils. Oh yes.original ↗
8 Nov 2024

2023

Bleeding more cash out of homeless peopleoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2023
Temporary housing? – not for the cockroachesoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2023
When your Uber or delivery driver’s kids are being eaten alive by verminoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
Your Newham Get Me Out Of Here Bushbash Challenge – rising to a slug infestationoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
Back soonoriginal ↗
30 May 2023
Why you can’t rely on getting a sympathetic DWP work coachoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
Jeremy Hunt: curing old age and disability one cadaver at a timeoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2023
Why universal credit caseworkers strikeoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
Taking bets on when this council block will collapseoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2023
Opportunity knocks! – if you have a home and front door, etcoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2023

2022

Back in the New Yearoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
Is the idea to find out how much cold poorer people can take?original ↗
14 Dec 2022
Do migrants feel separation from family less or somethingoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2022
Update on mould shocker & the bucket for a toilet at Brassett Point estateoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2022
Can’t use your toilet because of sewerage and water leaks? Have a bucketoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2022
Back soonoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Sanctioned because you had covid… Great.original ↗
10 Nov 2022
Good news: the council found a flat for you. Bad news: disabled people such as yourself can’t get to itoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2022
Austerity the sequel: how to rub out sick and disabled people who survived the first roundoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2022
Homeless and being tortured by your council? Great, isn’t it.original ↗
11 Oct 2022
DWP: Are you poor and over 60? Get to work or drop dead. We’re here to help etcoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2022
Does Boris Johnson have to wait 6 months and more for universal credit since he lost his joboriginal ↗
19 Sept 2022
Sanctions for people who need them least and struggle the most. Let’s hear it for the DWP!original ↗
15 Sept 2022
Disabled? Your council has decided you’re not any more. Praise the lord! and find your own housing.original ↗
2 Sept 2022
DWP: we can send you on a useless course or on hopeless “work experience.” Let’s do both.original ↗
27 Aug 2022
DWP: we are clawing back £6k you don’t owe and can’t pay. We rule.original ↗
13 Aug 2022
Do letting agents discriminate against benefit claimants up north or are they as shite as in Londonoriginal ↗
24 May 2022
Thoughts on the violence with which Tories punish benefit claimants who break rules. Don’t think many claimants even get a party out of itoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2022
Do letting agents still discriminate against benefit claimants? Of course not! Well – kind of. Well – yes.original ↗
3 Apr 2022
Missing universal credit payments, unanswered journals – give it up for the forever useless DWPoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2022
Begging a council not to evict you as you’re about to give birth. Behold! – the war against womenoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2022

2020

Site maintenanceoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2020
Link to download of my bookoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2020
Nurses and NHS workers will protest for pay on 8 August. They should be rewarded with money as well as clapping…original ↗
6 Aug 2020
It’s time to pay careworkers proper sick pay. Stop trying to paper over the f*cking cracksoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2020
Question: How did carework end up in such dire straits? Answer: outsourcingoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
Homelessness: the plague that voters are happy to live withoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2020
Sacrificing sick, disabled and elderly people for economic gain? This ain’t exactly neworiginal ↗
19 Apr 2020
Has government actually thought about help for people stuck in homelessness hostels and cramped emergency places?original ↗
14 Apr 2020
All you need to force the DWP to talk civilly to benefit claimants is a plague. Who knew?original ↗
11 Apr 2020
There’s no way homeless people can isolate in hostels. Families share rooms and bedsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
Freedom vs healthoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2020

2019

Labour lost. Stop the infighting. People can’t afford lefty petulance.original ↗
14 Dec 2019
Apologies for being a Remainer – more stories from the jobcentreoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2019
Why a private rented flat means poverty foreveroriginal ↗
15 Oct 2019
Save up for rent before you’re switched to Universal Credit, coz you won’t get money for 6 weeksoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2019
Staff: Universal Credit claimants go without money because support centres are woefully understaffed #UniversalCreditStrikeoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2019
Northern remainersoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2019
We’ve stopped your Universal Credit today without warning because you’re working without pay…original ↗
17 Jul 2019
Blogging for July-Augustoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2019
Good news: you’ve got a job. Bad news: you won’t be paid for two monthsoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2019
Meanwhile, back at the jobcentre…original ↗
12 Jun 2019
Back soonoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2019
We’ll find you intentionally homeless even though it’s our fault you’re homelessoriginal ↗
31 May 2019
When women in absolute poverty are denied their kids, legal help and housingoriginal ↗
28 May 2019
Single mothers are placed in terrible housing by councils. Then social services muscles in when the family falls apart because of the terrible housingoriginal ↗
20 May 2019
Found a job – but can’t afford childcare. Universal Credit won’t help up front. This is ridiculousoriginal ↗
10 May 2019
We know you’re homeless and dangerously depressed and anxious. Let’s push you over the edgeoriginal ↗
8 May 2019
Got a job and a chance to earn some money. Hope the DWP doesn’t wreck it… More interviews from the jobcentreoriginal ↗
6 May 2019
Decay like you wouldn’t believe – which century are we in?original ↗
26 Apr 2019
Back soon. Meanwhile – a few thoughts on the trainwreck that is council homelessness “help”…original ↗
23 Apr 2019
You’re homeless. You should be grateful for a flat without furniture or a fridge or floor coverings… Suck it uporiginal ↗
16 Apr 2019
Homelessness and poverty while Brexit takes it alloriginal ↗
9 Apr 2019
Back soonoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2019
Mayor apologises for letter which threatened to make a woman with serious mental health issues homeless. Now what.original ↗
24 Mar 2019
PIP assessment recording: the PIP assessor who didn’t know what homelessness really wasoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2019
Actually, Neil – the Universal Credit “system” for self employed people and variable incomes is shiteoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2019
Get to the office or we’ll make you homeless: what’s the outcome of the council investigation into this threat?original ↗
6 Mar 2019
Get to the office today or we’ll throw you off the homelessness list: how people with mental health issues are addressedoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2019
Do councils actually try to drive homeless mothers to breakdown so they can remove their kids?original ↗
20 Feb 2019
Homeless mothers: we feel the ever-present threat of social services and losing our kids. That’s how they keep people quietoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2019
Can I claim benefits when I’m homeless? Getting the feeling that people can’t find clear answers to this.original ↗
15 Feb 2019
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