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March 23, 2020

RSA statement on Coronavirus and a Universal Basic Income

Coronavirus is demonstrating why having such a complex, conditional and punitive system of cash support is fundamentally flawed, says the RSA.
October 18, 2019

World stumbling into a digital welfare dystopia, warns UN human rights expert

Digital welfare states risk becoming Trojan Horses for hostility towards social protection and regulation, said the UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston.
October 3, 2019

Scottish government calls for measures to address ‘no deal’ Brexit poverty risks

The Scottish Government is calling for action to mitigate the impact of a 'no deal' Brexit on people on low incomes.
July 24, 2019

Universal Credit should come with a health warning, says Select Committee

So-called natural migration is trapping benefit claimants in the DWP 'lobster pot', struggling with a sudden drop in income and with no way back, says the Work and Pensions Committee.
April 5, 2019

New Universal Credit inquiry launched on in-work progression

The Work and Pensions Committee asks what role, if any, conditionality or sanctions should play in encouraging and supporting in-work progression.
October 16, 2018

Benefit sanctions and conditions 'pushing disabled people further from employment'

Researchers say psychological model of behaviour change that underpins conditionality and sanctioning is fundamentally flawed.
August 5, 2018

Dangerous drive for ‘work’ at all costs continues, despite evidence

Social security ‘reforms’ have failed, even on their own terms.
August 4, 2018

Public backs Basic Income experiments in local areas, RSA poll finds

Forty per cent of the public would welcome Basic Income experiments in their local area while just 15 per cent would oppose them, an RSA survey has found.
June 20, 2018

Welfare reform, human rights, and a human catastrophe

Today, three events in Westminster have demonstrated the way in which politicians pursuing welfare ‘reform’ and austerity have ridden roughshod over the human rights of some of the poorest and most
May 31, 2018

Academics call for a major rebalance of the welfare system

Researchers say benefit sanctions are likely to exacerbate social exclusion among disadvantaged populations.