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The Conservative government want to make £4.4 billion in savings by cutting tax credits. But what exactly are they?
The policies and rhetoric around the drive to cut the welfare bill show the persistence of a 19th century approach to relieving poverty.
The government faces pressure to means test benefits to stop richer elderly people claiming at the expense of their poorer peers.
Real case studies offer important insights into the varied impact of policy and practice on people’s day to day lives. They shouldn’t be made up.
New proposals put drug and alcohol councillors in an ethical bind.
A woman left out of her mother’s will has won £164,000 in the courts but that doesn’t mean you need to rewrite yours.
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
After months of speculation, we now know how the Chancellor plans to save £12bn from the welfare budget.
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
David Cameron has opened discussions at the European Council about the changes he wants to see in the European Union ahead of a UK referendum on membership. This is an unprecedented step. It is the first…
PM tells local school the future is bright. Probably best not to focus on the past five years.
Psychology can’t be used to diagnose and treat unemployment.
Labour’s Jim Murphy and the Conservatives’ Ruth Davidson clashed over targets for sanctioning people on benefits. Who was right?
The Conservatives are planning to cut £12bn from the welfare budget. It could be a bad political move.
Treasury minister does the dirty on coalition partners in 11th hour bid to win back votes.
The problems with benefits lie outside the system, while more and more of us are being dragged into its orbit.
Labour claims that the bedroom tax has hit over half a million people, two-thirds of them disabled. Has it?
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