Could you go five weeks without money? Under a new DWP plan you might have to
Further punitive restrictions on Universal Credit are on the way.
Social Justice
The real reason the Lib Dems U-turned on the Bedroom Tax
The Bedroom Tax U-turn is about dire Lib Dem poll ratings, not principles.
Another Department for Work and Pensions failure?
More than two thirds of people on the government’s controversial Work Programme are still without a job after two years on the scheme, according to new figures.
Why Iain Duncan Smith should resign
His welfare schemes keep imploding, severely ill people keep being declared fit for work and so many people are falling through cracks in the benefits system that food bank use surpassed a million this year. Yet Iain Duncan Smith soldierstest
Jump in working housing benefit claimants makes mockery of coalition welfare claims
A jump in the number of housing benefit claimants shows the government is prioritising being ‘tough’ about benefits ahead of being correct about them.
Until ESA is reformed, the rights won by generations of disability campaigners will evaporate
The new Spartacus report proposes an alternative to the broken ESA system.
Government hampering scrutiny of universal credit, say MPs
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today accused the government of “hampering” its inquiry into Universal Credit.
Labour has betrayed its supporters on the welfare cap
The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy. It was about shrinking thetest
Holyrood versus Whitehall on the Bedroom Tax
The Scottish and UK governments are on a collision course over the bedroom tax.
Bedroom tax ‘iniquitous and inhumane’, say MSPs
The bedroom tax “is iniquitous and inhumane and may well breach tenants’ human rights”, according to a new report.