Benefit claimants are being asked their views on new legislation that will establish Scotland’s first welfare system. The Social Security Bill introduced last week will give ministers the power to
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Four out of five people referred to foodbanks have skipped meals and gone without eating, sometimes for days at a time, a major new study has revealed. Research commissioned by
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UK Government welfare cuts are expected to reduce annual social security spending in Scotland by almost £4 billion by 2020/21, according to a new report. The Scottish Government’s update on
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More than 16,500 people and a coalition of 80 charities have signed a letter urging party leaders to put an end to disability benefit cuts. Paralympians Kadeena Cox and Anne
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Financial support for poorer parents will more than double from summer 2019 when the first new Scottish benefit starts being paid, Social Security Secretary Angela Constance has said. Qualifying families
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Urgent action is needed to improve the child support system amid concerns single-parent families are “slipping through the safety net”, MPs have warned. The Work and Pensions Committee said the
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The Government has failed to deliver more than £4 billion in planned cuts to disability benefits, new analysis has found. Senior Labour MPs accused the Tories of “creating further waste
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The UK Government has been urged to rethink “incoherent” plans to close a swathe of Jobcentres in Scotland. Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee said the proposals showed “a lack of planning”
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Austerity campaigner Charlotte Hughes considers what social workers and other professionals should be be doing to challenge poverty, austerity and stigma… More than a million people in the UK are
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Around one million “unsung heroes” who care for vulnerable relatives will be given a £10 a week benefits boost under the first year of a Labour government, Jeremy Corbyn will
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