An SNP MP has proposed changes to the UK Government’s welfare policy, to prevent women being “forced to choose between poverty and abuse”. Dr Philippa Whitford (pictured) has published a
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The Social Workers Union (SWU) are offering four grants of £500 to social work students who can write the most compelling argument for how the profession can solve austerity. Timed
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“Just about managing” families on the lower end of the pay spectrum are set for three years of stagnating living standards, a new report has warned. The Resolution Foundation think
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Disabled people are unable to afford the same standard of living as non-disabled people, a charity has warned. A new report from the disability charity Scope found that disabled people
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A “pervasive lack of trust” among disabled people in the method of assessing their welfare claims risks undermining the operation of the Government’s flagship benefits, MPs have warned. Since 2013,
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More than £100 million has been spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefits in little more than two years, new figures
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A company which provides cars for disabled people has stockpiled £2.4 billion of taxpayers’ money and pays its chief executive £1.7 million a year, it has been reported. Motability, a
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Families hit by the Government’s “two-child limit” for welfare payments have started a High Court action against the policy. The rule, introduced in April last year, restricts child tax credits
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A Government minister has described claims from an SNP MP that people have “taken their own lives as a result of Government’s benefit policies” as “appalling and unsubstantiated”. Work and
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The recent rise in homelessness has its roots in welfare reform and the housing market, almost entirely accounted for by an increase in families losing their privately-rented housing, experts have
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