12 June, 2024 Open access
11 June, 2024 Open access
Commitments include to ensure benefits 'remain a safety net not a lifestyle choice', and introducing a 'triple lock plus' to ensure that state pension is never taxed
11 June, 2024
Analysing the impact of universal credit since its inception, IFS highlights that typical households that lose under the reform include mixed-age couples, and those with self-employed workers or receiving health-related benefits
11 June, 2024
Consultation on proposed funding decisions, including the freezing of recruitment, pose 'significant risks' to successful completion of Move to UC and effective benefit delivery in the region
10 June, 2024 Open access
Commitments include measures to 'repair the broken benefits safety net', and prioritising carers and disabled people
10 June, 2024 Open access
With the principal saving coming from proposed reforms to PIP, IFS highlights that this would mean a 'lot of people losing significant sums'
10 June, 2024 Open access
10 June, 2024
New statutory instrument
7 June, 2024
New report argues that removing the limit, and other punitive policies such as the benefit cap, is crucial to ensuring that all children have a decent standard of living
7 June, 2024
Direction encourages tribunals to give concise reasons, and cautions that stating reasons at greater length than necessary 'is not in the interests of justice'
6 June, 2024
Pay dispute continues for union members employed by G4S to provide security for DWP employees and claimants
6 June, 2024
New DWP statistics also show that almost six in ten of those who have completed 12 months have not yet achieved first earnings from employment
5 June, 2024
Recommendations in new report include slowing managed migration, increasing child element by £20 per week, and substantially reducing the use of sanctions
5 June, 2024
Exercise designed to help the Department to gather more learning, including in relation to households that require additional support
4 June, 2024 Open access
Ahead of tonight’s TV leaders' debate, charity says that failure to act will be a political and moral choice, and one they should expect to be judged on
4 June, 2024
However, Poverty and Inequality Commission says that meeting the government's 2030 targets will require transformational change and that current work is not at the scale necessary to deliver the transformation required
3 June, 2024
By recovering debts so aggressively, NEF says the government is intensifying the hardship that claimants are experiencing, pushing them into a vicious debt cycle
31 May, 2024
New statistics also show that more than 80 per cent of spending was used to mitigate the bedroom tax
30 May, 2024
New Work and Health Programme statistics also show that of those that started on the new programme, 80 per cent had a disability
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