MPs have launched a fresh inquiry into benefit sanctions amid warnings of troubling cases and extreme harm being caused to disabled people. The Work and Pensions select committee will analyse
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Thousands of Universal Credit claimants are having 40% of their benefit deducted to pay back outstanding debts. Labour MP Ruth George said the high level of deductions from payments “will
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Sixty Church of England bishops as well as senior figures from other Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups have united to urge the Government to rethink its controversial benefits cap on
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Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Conservatives have come under fire over the “abhorrent rape clause” one year after the controversial welfare reform was brought in. SNP and Labour politicians urged
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Flagship welfare reforms will create “losers” despite a likely 50,000 increase in the number of children eligible for free school meals (FSMs), a new analysis claims. The Institute for Fiscal
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Failure to replace a £500 million EU fund for deprived communities post-Brexit would be “disastrous”, the Government has been warned. The European Social Fund provides half a billion pounds a
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The Scottish Government is to use new welfare powers to introduce an income supplement as part of a range of measures to tackle child poverty. Communities Secretary Angela Constance announced
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Discretionary welfare payments are being “hacked away”, a senior MP has claimed, after new figures showed more than £300 million has been axed from two major benefits funds. Fresh analysis
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The Government is spending more than £700,000 reassessing people with the most severe cases of Parkinson’s for disability benefits, even though they will never get any better, campaigners have claimed.
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A Government U-turn on welfare will mean 18 to 21-year-olds are automatically entitled to claim housing benefit again. Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey said the change “will reassure all
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