Cuts to benefits threaten to force sick and disabled people “further away from work and closer to poverty”, charities have warned. Ahead of a key House of Lords vote on
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Carers who look after a disabled adult at home could see their benefits capped further as a result of new policies, a charity has warned. The current cap means full-time
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Cancer patients could be at risk of losing their homes if Government cuts to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) go ahead, a charity has warned. Macmillan Cancer Support commissioned research
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David Cameron has launched an “all-out assault on poverty” with a sweeping package of social reforms including measures to boost mentoring, improve mental health services and flatten “sink estates”. The
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Kinship carers should be made exempt from the Government’s benefit cap and other welfare restrictions to help prevent children being placed into the care of the state, Alan Johnson has
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The Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee has said a huge cultural shift will be required to create a better Scottish welfare system, in a new report published yesterday. The Committee’s
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Thousands of people with cancer will feel “cold and lonely” this Christmas because they do not have enough money to celebrate or heat their homes, a charity has warned. Almost
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The new Universal Credit system will mean a less generous benefit entitlement for working families, a respected economic think tank has said. An estimated 2.6 million working families can be
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A Government failure to exempt individual family carers in receipt of carer’s allowance from the benefit cap amounts to “objectively unjustifiable indirect discrimination” and is not lawful, a High Court
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The Government has been accused of adopting a “kangaroo parliamentary procedure” to stifle debate and “fast track” changes to Northern Ireland’s benefits system through Parliament. The Stormont Assembly voted to
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