benefits
The Work Programme: just 1 in 20 ESA claimants have found work through the scheme
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
Duncan Smith department promoting ‘negative perceptions’ of benefit claimants
A group of MPs has slammed the government for using official statistics inaccurately to spin stories about benefit claimants.
Migration Watch’s latest report: a ‘stark misapprehension’ and ‘simply wrong’
'Immigrants cost Britain £3,000 a year each', booms today's Daily Telegraph. They are completely and utterly wrong.
How to control welfare spending: build houses and raise the minimum wage
There are more progressive ways to control spending than bashing the poor.
The crisis in crisis support – reversing the slow abolition of welfare assistance funding
The abolition of the Local Welfare Assistance fund makes scant social or economic sense.
Fraud allegation Tory MP accused Eastern Europeans of benefit tourism
A Tory MP at the centre of £100,000 benefit fraud allegations has previously accused Eastern Europeans of coming to Britain from Eastern Europe in order to claim benefits.