The Scottish Government has called on the UK Government to clarify the extent of its proposed £12 billion welfare cuts and urgently outline how they will impact on Scotland’s new
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The term austerity was “hijacked” by the left during the election campaign to “delude voters into thinking that some belt tightening and control of government spending was almost evil”, a
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The Government has said it cannot rule out implementing welfare reforms in Northern Ireland over the head of the devolved Assembly. Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers (pictured) said a budgetary
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Northern Ireland’s faltering power-sharing Executive has lurched towards another crisis after the Assembly voted down a bid to implement welfare reforms in the region. The fall of the already long-delayed
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Nearly half of carers are struggling to make ends meet and worried about further cuts to welfare, a charity has warned. Carers UK said it was calling on the Government
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A third of Londoners cannot afford a decent standard of living because of extra costs of living in the capital, such as housing and transport, according to a new report.
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Disabled people have been forced to turn to loan sharks and food banks because of the “unlawfully long time” taken to provide them with vital welfare benefits, the High Court
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Iain Duncan Smith is to remain in charge of the Government’s controversial welfare reforms as Work and Pensions Secretary, David Cameron announced as he prepared to reveal the make-up of
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UNISON is calling for action to help people in rented accomodation, as research reveals the scale of the impact of welfare reforms and rising rents on those in London in
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Changes in the living standards of the UK population have fallen, particularly since the April 2013 cuts in social security and other austerity measures took effect, according to new analyses
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