Osborne won’t rule out cutting child benefit to meet Tory spending target
The IFS say that incorporating child benefit into universal credit could cost 4.3 million families £1,000 a year
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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.
This is a watershed moment for the future of free school meals
Universal Credit will trap over 100,000 familes on a ‘benefit cliff-edge’: it’s time to extend eligibility for free school meals to all children in poverty.
Simplification, sanctions and cuts won’t create jobs
Over the last few days the coalition has been keen to sell Universal Credit as the answer to all the labour market’s problems. After the deepest recession in decades, they are confident they can reduce worklessness by 300,000 jobs (a ‘conservative’ estimate), reduce child and working age poverty, reduce working-age welfare expenditure by £18 billion and make everyone in work better off, simply by reforming the welfare system.
Welfare spending cut proposals ‘causing deep fear’ among people with serious health issues
‘The Chancellor has an unenviable task but she does have choices’
Child poverty strategy likely to fail unless two-child limit goes, charity warns
The charity estimates that the two-child limit pushes another 109 children into poverty each day.
Keir Starmer restores whip to four MPs who opposed the two-child benefit cap
‘I have found out in a news article’, said one of the MPs who has not yet had the whip restored
Scotland’s promise to abolish two-child benefit cap expected to reduce child poverty by 2029
Scotland has promised to scrap the two-child limit on benefits from 2026.
Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’
A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government’s honeymoon has been short lived.