social security
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.
Until ESA is reformed, the rights won by generations of disability campaigners will evaporate
The new Spartacus report proposes an alternative to the broken ESA system.
Government hampering scrutiny of universal credit, say MPs
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today accused the government of “hampering” its inquiry into Universal Credit.