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October 23, 2016

UK hunger – the worst is yet to come if we don't act

First, please watch this
October 22, 2016

Campaign seeks to bring victims of austerity 'to the table'

A new campaigning group, Cradle2Grave, has come together to "join the dots together after being battered and bruised by Tory austerity for six years".
October 18, 2016

Stop trying to fix poor people – fix poverty

The news that the Troubled Families scheme
October 8, 2016

Personal Independence Payments, a Peer and Paralympian

Is anyone in the UK more equipped to deal with the benefits system than Tanni Grey-Thompson?
September 1, 2016

New book reveals how disastrous welfare policies were developed

How did Britain reach the point where thousands of seriously ill people
August 30, 2016

'Self-help welfare' - an appeal to self-interest?

Prior to the 2010 General Election, I heard a man on a radio phone-in asking, "Why should I pay tax and National Insurance so that other people can claim benefits?"
August 20, 2016

'Welfare dependency' or essential redistribution?

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has issued an Economic
July 12, 2016

Labour leadership - how did it come to this?

As she launched her leadership campaign, Angela Eagle
June 15, 2016

Three-quarters of benefit claimants worried about welfare changes

New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of low income households claiming means-tested benefits are worried about future changes to the welfare system.
May 9, 2016

Personal Independence Payments: the 20 metre rule

In the 2012 Welfare Reform Act, the government replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

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