Iain Duncan Smith
New Grayling porkie on welfare reform statistics
Chris Grayling is at it again. DWP has been telling porkies on the number of households affected by the new benefits cap. The true figure is 25,000 rather than 100,000.
Spending review will weaken work incentives
The spending review has further weakened work incentives and the financial support that working families really need, reports ippr's Kayte Lawton.
By end of 2011, there will be 4.6 unemployed people for every vacancy
The economic turmoil of the past 2 years is absent from the coalition government’s ambitious prescription to reduce unemployment, explains ippr's Tess Lamming.
Ten policy headaches for the government on child benefit
Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, outlines ten policy headaches for David Cameron and George Osborne over the changes to Child Benefit.
The great DWP conjuring act on worklessness figures
The Department for Work and Pensions is under pressure to improve levels of transparency and accountability following a FullFact.org investigation yesterday.
Benefit fraud – PM plays to the polls whilst IDS considers the real issues
The prime minister’s blustering attack on people committing benefit fraud yesterday highlighted the growing gap between work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s increasingly nuanced line on the issue and the rest of government’s determination to milk the potential of a ‘government cracks down on benefit cheats’ headline for all it’s worth.