Welfare
What next for George Osborne’s mission to reduce family dependency?
Higher wage floors are nowhere near enough to make up for these cuts
IDS introduces warning system to benefit sanctions
Changes will give sanctioned claimants 14-days to appeal before their money is stopped
Nick Clegg slams Osborne’s ‘living wage’
Former Lib Dem leader says the change is designed to trick workers
Three messages for families in 2020: don’t be a lone parent, don’t have too many children, and do work all hours
By 2020 a lone parent will be 30 per cent worse off than they were in 2010
IDS’s gradual criminalisation of poverty
The government is intent on extending benefit sanctions by stealth
How the Tories are redefining the state’s relationship with its citizens
Social rights are becoming commodities only available to the wealthy