welfare reform
Beveridge, the Royal baby and Osborne’s sickening ‘scrounger’ rhetoric
George Osborne’s proposals to make real term cuts to welfare and the impending arrival of a new Royal baby - two things that are inextricably linked.
MSPs outline “grave concerns” about UK welfare reforms
MSPs today expressed “grave concerns” over the likely impact on Scotland’s most vulnerable people as a result of Westminster’s £2.5 billion cut in benefits.
IDS’s continuing spin war against people with disabilities: part 47
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions continues to use misleading figures on the growth of disability benefit claims to underpin his case for reform.
Where is Labour on welfare?
Vincenzo Rampulla asks what the real Beveridge heritage is, and whether shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne is going the right way to achieving it.
Why child benefit must be removed from the benefit cap
Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government's proposed benefits cap.
Exposed: The six myths of IDS’s benefits cap
This morning, the Child Poverty Action Group have exposed the six myths of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s regressive reforms; here they are.