Iain Duncan Smith
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.
CSJ: 50,000 families will have the rug “pulled from under them”
The Centre for Social Justice attack the Tories on family breakdown. Dominic Browne looks at their concerns and why you can't trust the Tories on the family.
Take the coalition’s ‘Tory Boy’ posturing on welfare claimants with a pinch of salt
Neil Coyle gives a robust, evidenced based analysis of the latest DWP figures on disability benefit re-assessments and attempts to get people back into work.
All in the family? Putting intergenerational poverty into perspective
Does poverty in childhood inevitably lead to poverty in adulthood? Is it passed from parents to children, ‘cascading down the generations’? Special report by Declan Gaffney.
The weirdness at the core of Universal Credit
As the details emerge of the government’s big ticket welfare reform, the introduction of Universal Credit, it looks as if for once the hubristic language might be justified.
IDS’ housing benefit u-turn masks full horror of reforms
IDS will drop plans to impose a 10% cut in housing benefit on anyone unemployed for more than a year. But the Welfare Reform bill includes other pernicious reforms.