Archive: Welfare

Budget 2012: Alarm growing after Osborne's welfare cuts warning

Poorest could lose £10 a day as a result of further £10bn welfare bill cuts

Campaigners are reeling after George Osborne raised the prospect of an extra £10 billion of welfare cuts in his Budget statement yesterday.

'Middle class welfare' under fire

Welfare reform vision unveiled

IDS laments 'tragic' welfare state

Labour: Welfare to work programmes just aren't working

Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms comments on the National Audit Office's report revealing the government overegged the impact of its work programme:

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CBI: Coalition's work programme is an improvement

CBI chief policy director Katja Hall comments on the National Audit Office's report revealing the government overegged the impact of its work programme:

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NAO: Work programme mustn't cut corners

National Audit Office chief Amyas Morse sums up the contents of the NAO's report on the work programme: "The Department for Work and Pensions has made a significant effort to learn the lessons of previous welfare to work programmes.

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Bishops defeat coalition in benefit cap vote

Homelessness could increase as result of benefits cap changes

Peers have rejected the government's plans to prevent benefit claimants receiving more than £26,000 a year, handing the coalition's welfare reforms another big setback.

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IDS warns Cameron on tax breaks for married couples

The quiet man strikes: IDS issues warning on married couples' tax breaks.

Iain Duncan Smith has demanded David Cameron implement tax breaks for married couples before the end of the parliament.

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Comment: Govt's welfare reform bill trick stinks of injustice

Kaliya Franklin is an experienced disability rights writer, blogger, campaigner and founder of The Broken of Britain a non partisan campaign against the welfare cuts.

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point – isn't that worth proper scrutiny?

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Labour and Tory welfare systems 'cause resentment'

A little on top: Work credits are misunderstood, experts say.

Labour and Conservative benefit systems designed to 'make work pay' often leave recipients feeling aggrieved and resentful, according to new research.

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Comment: Cowardice defines our response to the riots

'It’s that fear that will see us improve the country, if we harness it humbly, rather than lazily and cynically.'

The political response to the riots has been deeply cynical and lacking in vision. England deserves better.

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Lib Dems ready for fight as Cameron tacks further right

Cameron has adopted a uniquely right-wing response to the riots over the last weeks

David Cameron looks set to face a fight with senior Liberal Democrats as he tacked further right in response to England's riots.

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PMQs: Miliband doesn't let go over cancer patient support

Ed Miliband was under pressure to perform following a turbulent week

Ed Miliband sought to bounce back at prime minister's questions by attacking David Cameron on welfare support for cancer patients.

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Labour 'responsibility' on Ed Miliband's mind

Political pressure growing on Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband has relaunched his troubled leadership with a speech redefining Labour's attitude towards 'responsibility'.

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Analysis: Hidden dangers of the coalition's welfare reforms

Destitution as a tool of public policy has its critics

Benefit claimants will be on the receiving end of more stick than carrot under current plans. Time is running out for campaigners.

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Govt rules out U-turn on benefit cap

Reports suggest the welfare secretary is more lukewarm towards a benefits cap than the chancellor.

Rumours that the government was preparing to U-turn on plans to cap benefit payments were rebutted by Downing Street today.

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Govt 'cutting funding to most vulnerable'

The organisations say abolishing community care grants will hit the most vulnerable.

Cuts to the social fund risk removing the safety net for the most vulnerable, leading charities have warned.

Grayling: We'll force half a million back into work

Taking the test: 1.6 million claimants will be assessed over the next three years

Chris Grayling has promised to force half a million people off incapacity benefit and into work ahead of a massive upheaval in the welfare system.

Major housing benefit climbdown as welfare reform unveiled

The universal credit is the brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith

The government has backtracked on plans to cut housing benefit.

Think tank: 'Scrap minimum wage to fix welfare'

IDS' reforms may be hailed by the government as radical, but they don't go nearly far enough for the IEA

The minimum wage should be abolished or drastically reduced if Iain Duncan Smith is to finish his welfare reform agenda, a think tank has argued.

Welfare scheme to force claimants into unpaid work

Back to work: Claimants may be forced to do one month of unpaid work

The long-term unemployed face having to do a month of unpaid work in order to keep receiving benefits, under new plans to be confirmed this week.

Spending review: Benefits hit as reform plans get funding

Benefits take a big hit, but reform gets green light

George Osborne has reserved £2 billion for work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms - but slashed benefits.

No holds barred in benefits clampdown

The government is set to implement a clampdown on benefits cheats as it bids to cut Britain's welfare bill by a quarter.

Cold weather payments set to be cut

The emergency payments kick in for vulnerable people once an area has seven days of freezing temperatures

Cold weather payments, designed as an emergency aid to the elderly and impoverished to pay for heating during the winter months, look set to be cut back according to reports.

Relieved IDS unveils universal credit

Iain Duncan Smith's universal credit gets the go-ahead

Iain Duncan Smith has secured his universal credit reform, confirming the biggest shake-up of Britain's benefits system for a generation.

Osborne steals the limelight with benefits crackdown

Osborne recieved an enthusiastic response from the audience in Birmingham

Benefit payments to individual families will be capped at the average income, George Osborne has announced.

Comment: Spending squeeze will impact the most vulnerable

Pat Thompson is assistant director of communications at Catch22

The government has been preparing us all for a tough spending review on October 20th. Public spending will shrink and the impact will be felt by the most vulnerable in society.

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