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On welfare reform, IDS is ignoring the ERAD project; Miliband must not join him
A little-known program, the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project, could be the basis of a new phase of welfare reform, argues Stephen Evans.
Cameron’s recycled rhetoric on benefit claimants
Reports the government will tighten up benefit rules to make people do more to look for work recycle previous Labour policy and miss the point, writes Stephen Evans.
Tories whitewash the millions set to lose from welfare reform
Sue Marsh presents her first thoughts on Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith’s speeches on welfare reform at the Conservative party conference today.
Childcare double whammy: help is cut as costs soar
With rising prices and stagnating wages, there couldn’t be a worse time for working families to have their support for childcare cut, writes Felicity Dennistoun.
Help stop government changes to welfare penalising disabled children
New welfare reform proposals will result in many disabled children facing a cut of up to £1,400 per year (£27 per week) compared to their current welfare entitlements.
How Pickles’s brutal council tax benefit reforms will pulverise the working-age poor
Pickles' council tax benefit reform will disproportionaly affect the working-age population, incentivise local authorities to push poor people out to neighbouring boroughs, will penalise councils of poorer areas and create a patchwork of inconsistent systems.