Within DWP, is anyone asking if benefits are adequate?
Is our benefit system is generous enough?
‘Living in fear’: Bedroom tax anxiety not going away
Bedroom tax forcing nearly nine out of every ten people affected to worry about meeting their living costs
Benefit cap ‘forces victims of domestic violence to stay with their abuser’
Women taking part in a pilot of the government’s benefit cap have been forced to stay with violent partners and even driven to attempt suicide, researchers have found.
UN’s housing expert ‘shocked’ by bedroom tax
The coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ policy could infringe its victims’ human rights, a United Nations investigator has warned.
Tories call for pregnant teenagers to lose housing benefit rights
Tory backbenchers are risking resuscitating the party’s ‘nasty’ tag today, as they put the finishing touches on a package of policy measures which includes harsh conditions on housing benefit for teenage mothers.
Coalition blamed for bedroom tax suicide
A 53-year-old woman who killed herself ten days ago blamed the government’s ‘bedroom tax’ in a suicide note, it has emerged.
‘Wicked bedroom tax’: Housing benefit claimants punished for spare bedrooms from today
Housing benefit claimants are to begin receiving cuts to their payouts from today, as the coalition implements its “wicked bedroom tax”.
‘Not rational’: MPs scathing over DWP’s housing benefit clampdown
The coalition’s housing benefit changes are being hit by scathing criticism from MPs, in a report questioning the fundamental economic justification for the reforms.
Housing in the UK ‘unaffordable’
The UK property market is so dysfunctional, it forces one in six families to spend over 40% of their income on rent or mortgages, research reveals.
Cameron placates Tory backbenchers with rightward drift
David Cameron has attempted to placate his backbenchers ahead of a week dominated by Lords reform, with a speech suggesting the party will go to the 2015 general election with a more rightwing agenda.
