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TFN is published by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6BB. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Registration number SC003558.

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Thousands waiting for disability benefit assessment
​The Scottish Parliament's welfare reform committee is seeking people with experience of Personal Independence Payment to tell MSPs their story
NEWS 15 May 2014 by Paul Cardwell
 
The story behind foodbank use
Luxury or necessity? Robert Armour talks to Scottish people about why they have turned to foodbanks
FEATURE 14 May 2014 by Robert Armour
 
#belowtheline: Life below the breadline
Jamie Livingstone explains how he coped living on £1 a day for a week, and how it compared to a life of poverty at home or abroad
OPINION 13 May 2014 Guest post
 
The senselessness of sanctions
Steven McAvoy, Enable welfare rights adviser, recounts an incident that highlights why benefits sanctions don't save money or help people find work
OPINION 12 May 2014 Guest post
 
#bringbackourgirls: Glasgow protest calls for girls return
Over 200 people attended a Glasgow protest in support of efforts to release abducted Nigerian school girls
NEWS 12 May 2014 by Robert Armour
 
Struggling Scots not claiming benefits
Charity finds half of Scots entitled to working tax credits may be missing out
NEWS 12 May 2014 by Paul Cardwell
 
Union claims targets for benefit sanctions do exist in Jobcentres
Evidence of benefit sanction targets has been uncovered by the Public and Commercial Services Union
NEWS 9 May 2014 by Paul Cardwell
 
Rights to benefits
Financial discrimination of disabled people must end
OPINION 8 May 2014 by TFN
 
Attitudes towards poor getting worse
The underlying causes of poverty need to be addressed, poverty conference is told
NEWS 1 May 2014 by Robert Armour
 
People “welcome the jolt” of sanctions says DWP
Department for Work and Pensions civil servant horrifies MSPs after claiming poor people make an economic choice to visit foodbanks
NEWS 1 May 2014 by Susan Smith
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