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Welfare Reform Bill

  • 1 Feb 2012
    A message from Spartacus: vote with your hearts

    Today (1 February), at 12.30pm, the Welfare Reform Bill will return to the House of Commons after a series of defeats in the Lords. Let's be very clear - it is a dangerous, incomplete bill based on flawed evidence and unpleasant ideals. It is vast and impenetrable - most of the ministers arguing for it have very little understanding of the detail within it. Yes, that's right, they don't understand the details or effects of their own policies.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    Welfare Reform Bill amendments going to House of Commons

    MPs in the Westminster House of Commons are debating the Welfare Reform Bill from 12.30pm on Wednesday 1 February 2012, one day after the House of Lords final debate. There are vital issues at stake for disabled people, including the young disabled and those with cancer, for people on housing benefit, for lone parents, vulnerable women and larger families.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    Social media, disability, welfare, work and calculating 'benefit'

    In recent months social media has proved its worth against some harping critics. The uprisings across the Middle East, the worldwide Occupy protest against unsustainable corporate neo-capitalism and the Spartacus Report revolt of disabled and sick people over punitive welfare cuts and changes: all these movements for change have benefited in a variety of ways from web 2.0 and beyond, from online crowd-sourcing, from twitter, from virals, and from 'internetworking'.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    A rethink on welfare is essential
  • 1 Feb 2012
    Government must change direction on welfare, say critics

    The House of Commons debates the Welfare Reform Bill for the last time today, following a record seventh defeat for the government in the House of Lords last night.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    Why the churches disagree with the benefit cap

    The excellent Joint Public Issues Team shared jointly by the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union of Great Britain has produced a very good guide to why a generic benefit cap is a bad idea for people living at the sharp end of austerity.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    Government challenged by Children's Society on disability and families

    The Children's Society has issued a statement following the government's latest Lords defeat, on cuts effecting disabled children, in the Welfare Reform Bill.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    Seventh defeat for government in Lords on welfare bill

    Lobbying of MPs is set to intensify in the next 18 hours, after the government suffered a seventh humiliating defeat on its controversial Welfare Reform Bill.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    Four of Britain's major Free Churches oppose welfare benefit cap

    The Methodist Church, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the United Reformed Church and the Quakers in Britain have called for Parliament to reject a benefit cap.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    Lords again seek to prevent reduction in money for disabled children

    Crossbenchers and others in the House of Lords will seek one more time to amend the Welfare Reform Bill to prevent a reduction in the money paid to disabled children.