The UK Government has tried to characterise poverty as a “lifestyle choice” while sweeping its effects on children “under the carpet”, Equalities Secretary Angela Constance has said. Ms Constance blasted
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Sickness benefits claimants will no longer have to go through reassessments to keep their payments if they suffer from chronic illnesses, the Work and Pensions Secretary is to announce. Employment
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A local authority has spent more than £1m housing homeless families in Travelodge hotel rooms. Peterborough City Council confirmed it had run out of hostel beds and B&B rooms to
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Plans to extend the Government’s welfare reforms into Northern Ireland have been greeted with protests by MPs. Measures such as the benefit cap, universal credit and personal independence payments would
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The richest 1% of the UK population now owns more than 20 times the total wealth of the poorest fifth, making the country one of the most unequal in the
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Help provided by the Government to families in need will be worse in 2020 than it was in 2010 and will slip even further unless action is taken to overhaul
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The social security system is failing to provide a safety net to stop people falling into severe poverty, a report by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found. It uncovered sharp
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Funding cuts to public services are putting the health of the public at risk, leading nurses have warned. Almost four in 10 nurses have treated patients whose health has been
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Carer groups are being asked their views on the introduction of a young carer’s allowance when new welfare powers are devolved to Holyrood. The Scottish Government has said it will
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A radical new approach is needed to prevent disabled workers leaving the workforce if the Government is to have any hope of meeting its disability employment target, a report has
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