Not implementing welfare reform has cost the public purse in Northern Ireland £173 million, the finance minister said. The money was deducted from the block grant which funds public services
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Charges for people to use child maintenance services have been dubbed “cruel and callous” after it emerged they had earned the Government more than £11 million. SNP MP Angela Crawley
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The Government lost control of its flagship welfare reforms to simplify the benefits system, according to the outgoing minister behind them. Conservative frontbencher Lord Freud said a “fundamental mistake” across
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Work capability assessments should be filmed to stop benefit claimants being “shamed”, a Tory MP has suggested. Tania Mathias said she had concerns about the way in which the assessments
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The “damning” findings of the review on social mobility highlight the “worrying” social divisions in modern Britain, MPs and charities have warned. Campaigners said “urgent” action was needed to put
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Welfare cuts have resulted in “grave or systematic violations” of the rights of disabled people in the UK, a United Nations inquiry has found. The scathing report by the UN
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Single parents of a young child make up more than half of households affected by a new benefit cap, research shows. The Gingerbread group said 43,700 single parents with a
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Benefit claimants in Scotland are projected to lose out on more than £2 billion a year under UK Government welfare reforms, according to a new report. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam
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Ministers are promising to confront the “prejudices and misunderstandings” preventing people with disabilities and long-term health conditions from finding work with the publication of wide-ranging proposals to help more back
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More than 6.5 million households across Britain are in debt or face the prospect of falling into debt within a month should they lose their jobs or face a large
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