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social security

March 14, 2018

The Two Nations of Britain and 'economic murder'

In Benjamin Disraeli’s novel Sybil, published in 1845, an aristocratic character boasts that Britain is the greatest nation that ever existed.
March 14, 2018

One and a half million more children in poverty by 2022, finds EHRC

An anlaysis of changes to tax and social security from 2010 to 2018 finds children will be hit hardest, with an extra 1.5 million in poverty by 2022.
January 31, 2018

They said Britain was broken – it is now

We were told we needed welfare reform because we were living in ‘Broken Britain’ , a
January 24, 2018

DWP Committee questions ministers on Universal Credit

The Work and Pensions Committee will question Ministers and civil servants on Universal Credit today.
January 22, 2018

Scottish Commission on Social Security to be established

A new independent scrutiny body that will hold Scotland’s social security system to account is to be created by the Scottish Government.
December 1, 2017

The disability employment gap - warm words and cold hearts

These days, whenever the government talks about helping people who are ill or disabled, this quote from Tolstoy springs to mind: “I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet
November 12, 2017

We need accountability for the harm of welfare reform

As Sarah Batty writes in an important but grim
June 13, 2017

Benefits freeze must end, says Child Poverty Action Group

Charity says that as inflation rises the current benefits freeze will drive a further rise in child poverty
May 21, 2017

Many more to fund own social care if Conservatives win

Many people will lose the right to council help to pay for their social care if the Conservatives win the general election.
May 6, 2017

Number of families hit by Benefit Cap trebles

The benefit cap was lowered in November 2016, and as a result, the latest statistics published yesterday ( 5 May 2017) show that the number of families hit has tripled: 280,000 people live in famil