Welfare
Mum-of-three dead from brain tumour three weeks after being told by Atos to find a job
A mother of three has died just three weeks after being told by Atos that she was fit to work.
Why is Liam Byrne so keen to out-do the Tories on social security cuts?
It is well known these cuts have been savage, unfair, and that they seriously affect the disabled. But what if they actually targeted the disabled, hitting them the hardest, piling all the harshest cuts on the services that are actually the most vital?
Why do we think there’s a magic solution to child benefit?
If there is anything that really gets up the nose of the right it's single mothers on benefits. No, in fact it's any parents claiming benefits, as the sorry media sage around Mick Philpott demonstrated.
BBC slavishly follows government line on impact of benefits cap
It is disappointing to again see the BBC reporting government statistics on the benefits cap without even the remotest hint of challenge as to what they mean.
Daniel Hannan: wrong about everything on the benefit cap
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has a piece in today's Telegraph in which he claims the left has "lost its moral compass on welfare".
The benefit cap tackles a real problem from the wrong end
A cap on the total amount of benefits that people receive begins rolling out across England, Wales and Scotland today. The cap applies to those aged 16 to 64 and means that couples and lone parents will no longer receive more than £500 a week, with single people limited to a maximum of £350 a week.