benefits
Why Iain Duncan Smith should resign
His welfare schemes keep imploding, severely ill people keep being declared fit for work and so many people are falling […]
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.
Government ‘trying to stigmatise job seekers’, says trade union
Labour and Unite have slammed the government's new mandatory Community Work Placement scheme, reports Rob Edwards.
‘He lived on field mushrooms and borrowed eggs’: how the coalition is dismantling the welfare state
The coalition is moving toward a welfare system that is surreal in its cruelty, writes Annie Powell.
The coalition is slowly terminating the social contract
We need to talk about our rights as members of the public rather than letting corporations define them, writes Matt Hawkins.
A crisis made in Downing Street: one MILLION people visit food banks
Almost one million people had to rely on a food bank for emergency food aid in the past year.