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  • 24 May 2013
    Church speaks out against bedroom tax evictions

    The Church of Scotland says people should not be evicted from their homes because of the new changes to housing dubbed the ‘bedroom tax’.

  • 10 May 2013
    Official rebuke to Iain Duncan Smith over statistics misuse

    UK statistics authority chair Andrew Dilnot has criticised work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s misleading claims on the impact of capping benefits. This is not the first time that he, and the department he heads, have been found to have misused statistics.

  • 25 Mar 2013
    Jobseekers’ welfare sanctions may violate multiple rights

    Do you go to church on Sundays? Do you have young children who need you to look after them on Saturdays, or adult caring responsibilities for even a few hours a week? If you lose your job in the UK, you might be punished with destitution.

  • 7 Jan 2013
    Benefits rise cap is plain wrong, say charities

    The chief executives of 23 major British charities say the government must make sure increases in benefit rates at least reflect rises in the cost of living.

  • 4 Nov 2012
    Child benefit freeze will cost two-child families over £400

    The government's decision to freeze child benefit between 2011 and 2014 will cost families with two children more than £400, TUC analysis reveals.

  • 14 Jan 2012
    Housing benefit reform – on the move

    Many people have not yet realised the full impact of housing benefit and other welfare reforms threatening further hardship for those already disadvantaged. On political if not humanitarian grounds, the government would do well to stop targeting those in greatest need, says Savi Hensman, examining the specific issue of housing benefit.

  • 5 Jul 2011
    Welfare changes 'could cause homelessness'

    Government ministers may have seen analysis showing proposed changes to welfare benefits could make 40,000 families homeless.