benefits
Coalition misses universal credit target (again)
Just a fraction of the people the government wants to move to Universal Credit have been moved across to the new payment system, according to new statistics from the Department for Work & Pensions.
Government treatment of non-dependants: the scandal of poverty wages
Thomas Stephens explains how the Coalition are doing nothing to address poverty wages while hurting non-dependants hard
Cameron’s migrant benefit move is even worse than you think
The latest restrictions on migrants claiming benefits won't only harm migrant workers but also Britons.
The government’s overall objective should be simple: zero hunger
Food poverty is an extreme example of what happens when the welfare system breaks down.
Was the aim of the bedroom tax always to shift debt from the government to benefit claimants?
The bedroom tax might be the clearest example of the coalition punishing the poor for the financial crisis.
Government welfare reforms a ‘fiasco’ that are hurting the ‘most vulnerable’ say MPs
In one instance a claimant was hospitalised due to stress caused by payment delays