Minister warns young people must join jobs ‘boot camp’ or lose benefits
Jobless young adults will face losing benefits unless they take part in a “boot camp” to get them ready for the world of work, the chairman of a Government taskforce
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Tag: Welfare Reform
Robinson welcomes ‘serious’ welfare reform talks with Sinn Fein
Northern Ireland’s First Minister has indicated progress has been made in talks to resolve a row over welfare reform that had put the future of the powersharing administration at stake.
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Corbyn in call over funding of Northern Ireland welfare system
Jeremy Corbyn has said the British Government needs to fund Northern Ireland’s welfare system properly and warned of increased poverty because of Tory plans. The devolved powersharing administration in Belfast
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Pensioner poverty rising as billions in benefits go unclaimed
Some of the very poorest pensioners are missing out on billions of benefits, according to the latest government figures analysed in Age UK’s Chief Economist’s Report. The charity’s Chief Economist’s Report
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Alex Neil condemns ‘inexcusable attack’ on low-paid families
Around 120,000 children whose parents are working on low incomes will be cast adrift if the UK Government changes its definition of child poverty, the social justice secretary (for Scotland)
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Stephen Timms slams Iain Duncan Smith and Tories over child poverty
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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Government to publish benefit-related deaths data ‘no later than autumn’
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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New study finds two-thirds of poor children are in working families
Almost two-thirds of children in poverty are living with parents who work, according to a new study. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that, while levels of absolute child
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Economists find 13 million families worse off following ‘regressive’ budget
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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Osborne springs living wage surprise while cutting tax credits
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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