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JSA

November 16, 2016

What is it like to be disabled and work at the DWP?

The Department for Work and Pensions
September 23, 2016

Are disability benefits being cut covertly?

When further cuts to disability benefits became politically risky, did the government cynically decide to make cuts anyway, but covertly, by simply denying support to people who desperately need &n
March 11, 2016

Iain Duncan Smith, sanctions, and that video

We have, sadly, become accustomed to politicians making dubious claims, or even telling what appear to be lies when they feel cornered, or are trying to make a weak argument seem stronger.
March 5, 2016

Benefit sanctions - inhumane, legally dubious and potentially fatal

A mother too malnourished to breastfeed her baby - not in a famine-stricken developing country, but in the UK, today.
February 5, 2016

Reforming welfare from a distance

A young man I know, David, (not his real name) is heartbreakingly eager to work and has a mild learning disability.
February 5, 2015

Fawcett research looks at how benefit changes are hitting women hard

The Fawcett Society, the campaigning women's NGO, will today launch a new research report entitled 'Where's the Benefit?'
December 24, 2014

Quarter of a million jobseekers to spend second Christmas on the dole

Over 250,000 people are set to spend their second successive Christmas on the dole, according to new research by the TUC.
June 27, 2013

The callous and divisive politics of the Comprehensive Spending Review

Yesterday's Comprehensive Spending Review was a display of politics at its most callous and divisive.

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