Category: Work and Pensions
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Cost of living support helps local pensioners with winter bills
19 February 2026 Households across Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland have received Cold Weather Payments following the recent cold snap, with every part of the constituency covered. The £25 payments are made automatically to eligible pensioners and low-income households when temperatures fall to zero degrees or below for seven consecutive…
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Biggest upgrade to workers’ rights passes Parliament
Luke Myer MP and Minister Kate Dearden Last night (16 December 2025), Parliament completed the passage of the Employment Rights Bill – the biggest uplift in workers’ rights in a generation and a central promise of the Labour Government to make work pay and raise living standards. The Bill bans…
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Child Poverty Strategy welcomed as Teesside set to benefit
December 2025 The Labour Government has launched a landmark Child Poverty Strategy which is projected to lift more than half a million children out of poverty by 2030. Central to the plan is the scrapping of the two-child limit, a change estimated to benefit over 2,400 children in Middlesbrough South…
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Luke Myer MP welcomes Budget decision to scrap two-child limit as thousands of local children set to benefit
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP Luke Myer has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to abolish the two-child benefit limit. The policy shift will have a major impact on Teesside. Around 2,400 children in Luke’s constituency are currently affected by the cap, and over 20,000 across the wider Tees Valley. Nationally,…
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Luke wins back £798 for Skelton resident
Luke Myer MP helped secure an £798 back payment for a woman in Skelton after errors in her Universal Credit entitlement left her underpaid for several months. Following detailed checks by Luke’s casework team, the Department for Work and Pensions accepted she had not been receiving the correct rate since…
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Luke calls for higher levy on online gambling to combat child poverty
Over 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for a targeted levy on online gambling operators, with Luke Myer MP lending his full support to this important cause. The petition aims to secure increased funding to tackle child poverty, particularly in areas facing high deprivation, such as Middlesbrough. The movement,…
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Luke Myer MP calls to scrap the two-child limit and fund action on child poverty through fair gambling taxes
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP Luke Myer has joined over 100 Labour colleagues in urging the Chancellor to raise gambling taxes and use the funds to scrap the two-child benefit limit, a policy that has left thousands of children in poverty across Teesside and beyond. The intervention follows recommendations…
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Luke secures ESA support for Hemlington resident
This week, Luke Myer MP helped secure long-awaited Employment and Support Allowance payments for a woman in Hemlington after delays with her National Insurance record left her without income for several months. She had been unable to work following cancer surgery, but her ESA claim was held up due to…
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£5,300 Pension Credit boost for Boosbeck resident
This week, Luke Myer MP helped secure more than £5,300 in backdated Pension Credit and Cost of Living payments for a pensioner in Boosbeck, after a mandatory reconsideration was left unresolved for over a year. The resident should have been entitled to Pension Credit from mid-2023, but arrears were not…
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Luke Myer MP calls to scrap two-child limit to Universal Credit
Speaking in Parliament today (16 July 2025), Teesside MP Luke Myer said that one of the central objectives of the government’s child poverty taskforce should scrapping the two-child limit – a policy change which he said “would make such a difference to so many families”. Scrapping the cap has been…
