social security
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.
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 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.
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.