Iain Duncan Smith
Three things you should know about benefit fraud ‘lie detector’ tests
Why are local authorities permitted to squander taxpayers' money on something that appears to be about as effective as homeopathy?
The Trussell Trust supplies 600,000 emergency parcels in nine months
New figures released by the Trussell Trust show that the food bank charity provided emergency parcels containing three days food more than 600,000 times between April and December last year.
The government’s child poverty strategy falls short of the mark
The government's child poverty strategy is disappointingly short on new ideas.
By restricting the up-rating of benefits, the coalition is pushing vulnerable people into poverty
By slashing social security benefits the Tories therefore risk pushing some of the most vulnerable people in society back below the poverty line.
158,300 disabled people wrongly judged fit for work by Atos
Thousands of disabled people have been wrongly judged fit for work by Atos since August 2010.
Bedroom tax ‘iniquitous and inhumane’, say MSPs
The bedroom tax “is iniquitous and inhumane and may well breach tenants’ human rights”, according to a new report.