Child poverty is something the Conservatives do not want people to talk about which is why they are renaming the child poverty act the Life Chances Act, Labour has claimed.
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Data showing benefit-related deaths will be published “no later than the autumn”, the Government has said. Work and Pensions Minister Priti Patel reiterated the Prime Minister’s assertion that the statistics
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The first Conservative-only Budget for almost 20 years was “regressive”, taking “much more” from the poor than the rich, a respected economic thinktank has found. The Institute for Fiscal Studies
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George Osborne has used the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years to introduce a “living wage”, dramatically declaring that “Britain deserves a pay rise”. Hailing a new “higher wage,
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A “pay rise” for Britain with the surprise announcement of a new national living wage has been branded a “con trick” by Scotland’s Deputy First Minister. In the first Conservative
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A four-year freeze for working-age benefits and restricting tax credits to two children are among key parts of a blueprint to slash at least another £12 billion-plus a year from
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Scotland would be able to mitigate Conservative cuts to tax credits or other welfare under Labour and SNP plans to give Holyrood the power to create new benefits and top
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More than half of households in the UK receive more from the state in welfare payments and pensions than they pay in tax, according to a new report. The 51.5%
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New figures which reveal 210,000 children are living in relative poverty in Scotland after housing costs have been paid, have been condemned as ‘unacceptable’ by Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil.
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Figures the Government said showed 2.3 million children were classed as living in relative poverty, the lowest level since the 1980s, have sparked controversy. The Department for Work and Pensions
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