Social Justice
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 […]
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.