The government’s revised Family Tax Benefit proposals will still have some significant negative impacts on low-income families, but they are not as regressive as the 2014 budget.
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There is no mandatory four-week wait for young people to receive benefits in New Zealand.
The Senate has defeated the government’s budget measure to make job seekers under 25 wait four weeks for income support.
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.
The government should follow the evidence-based advice before wasting more money on a new “trial” program that further infantilises mainly Indigenous welfare recipients and won’t work.
Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone. Our experts respond to the new report on Australia’s welfare.
When funding comes sporadically with strings attached, how can vital services keep running?
New proposals put drug and alcohol councillors in an ethical bind.
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.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
David Cameron has tried to claim the clothes of social justice for the Conservatives. It’s time he took them off.
Here’s how well do the Eurozone countries look after their citizens.
With 17% of children living in poverty in the UK, the government wants to change the way it’s defined.
PM tells local school the future is bright. Probably best not to focus on the past five years.
If the government had provided analysis on how the budget impacts households it may not have found itself defending its record on fairness.
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