The City’s PLP Co-Chair Councillor Frank McAveety has launched Glasgow’s In-Work Support guidance and the Homelessness Easement Card.

In-Work Support is mainly an online resource to support those in low paid jobs and low income families who, despite being in employment, still suffer financial hardship.

The Homelessness Easement Card is aimed at unemployed homeless individuals who could be missing out on welfare payments or being unfairly categorised for benefits or Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) because they have wrongly or mistakenly stated their housing situation.

Glasgow City Council has announced its backing for a low-cost loan that significantly removes the risk of financially-vulnerable citizens entering into a cycle of debt.

The Wee Glasgow Loan is a fairer and crucially cheaper alternative to short term, high-cost, products from payday loan companies and rent-to-own shops that can cause a misery for hard-pressed residents.

The new loan product, operated by Pollok and BCD Credit Unions and supported by Glasgow City Council has an extremely low interest rate (2% per month on a decreasing balance.)

To mark Challenge Poverty Week, lots of staff from The Wheatley Group have signed the PLP Pledge - why don't you?

This new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report estimates the tangible cost that poverty brings to society, specifically in the form of the cost to the public purse.

It shows that

A new report from the New Policy Institute highlights why disability must be at the centre of poverty reduction.