Welfare Reform Bill
Could the welfare bill signal the death of social housing?
Thomas Sutton investigates the impact on social housing of the changes to housing benefit contained in Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reform bill.
Five reasons to oppose the welfare bill
The welfare reform bill will penalise the disabled, those working class communities who live in inner cities and second-earners who work over 16 hours a week.
Life is already hard for cancer patients. Don’t make it harder
Alex Hern covers the response from Macmillan cancer support to the government’s welfare reform bill, now in the House of Lords.
Yet another nasty in the welfare bill: Means testing support for the disabled-since-youth
Hundreds of thousands of families will be affected by the decision to means test ESA for those who have had disabilities since youth, writes Declan Gaffney.
Why did DWP delay releasing new data until after welfare reform bill cleared Commons?
Why was new research from the Department for Work and Pensions, which downgraded estimates for the growth in Disability Living Allowance, a major reason given for welfare reform, delayed until after the welfare bill passed the Commons?