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.
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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.
And now a Catholic leader attacks coalition’s welfare cuts
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, has slammed the coalition’s £18 billion welfare cuts.
How hard is it for families to keep their heads above water?
James Plunkett, secretary to the Resolution Foundation’s Commission on Living Standards, on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on ‘minimum income standards’.
Welfare reform: The coalition’s next train crash
Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms MP writes on the failures that lie at the heart of Iain Duncan Smith’s Welfare Reform Bill – the coalition’s next train crash.
Why Frank Field is wrong on women and welfare
Frank Field told the Progress Conference that Labour should not be a feminist party and that people are attracted to a life of joblessness, reports Shelly Asquith.
Coalition must not destroy legacy of lowest child poverty for 25 years
Tim Nichols, of the Child Poverty Action Group, looks at the policies brought in under Labour thast helped bring child poverty down to the lowest levels for 25 years.
Last chance to have your say on Employment Support Allowance
Sue Marsh reports on the welfare reform bill – in particular the changes to Employment Support Allowance, ESA.
Shocking new report reveals 1.6m children live in ‘severe poverty’
A new report out today has revealed nearly 1.6 million children in the UK live in severe poverty, with the highest levels of child poverty in Manchester and Tower Hamlets.
Misleading to claim welfare reform will cut child poverty levels
Making hundreds of thousands of families poorer, and then making some a little better off, does not count as a child poverty reduction plan, writes Nicola Smith.