Welfare
What a real ‘Benefits Street’ would look like
This is what a real 'Benefits Street' might look like.
Osborne’s false dichotomy: ‘people who work and pay taxes’ and those on welfare
Benefits are often an essential subsidy to low wages rather than an alternative to work.
3 questions Iain Duncan Smith must answer
We have three questions that we believe IDS ought to be asked by the committee.
Is the UK benefit system really too generous?
By European standards Britain's benefits system is far from generous.
Labour on welfare and free schools: facing electoral reality
New shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would be "tougher than the Tories" on benefits, while Tristram Hunt said Labour in government would back a version of education secretary Michael Gove's flagship free schools programme.
1 in 4 too ashamed to admit they receive benefits
One in four people are too ashamed to admit that they are in receipt of benefits, worried that people will think they are scroungers, according to a new survey.