welfare reform

August 11, 2017

Stop the Universal Credit juggernaut

The word juggernaut comes from the huge vehicles used by Indian temples to transport statues of their gods. They were so difficult to control that they often crushed people in their path.
August 4, 2017

Big rise in families hit by 'cruel' benefit cap

New government figures show a huge rise in the number of families hit by the benefit cap since it was lowered in 2016.
July 2, 2017

Government-created destitution

A few days ago (29 June 2017) there was an event in Westminster – ‘The Co
May 4, 2017

What Northern Ireland can tell us about welfare reform

Imagine if, when Iain Duncan Smith began his welfare reforms, we had allocated an area of the UK where the reforms were not implemented, as a sort of control group for comparison.
April 27, 2017

IFS: impact of tax and benefit reforms on household incomes

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says planned benefit cuts will have a bigger impact on the poorest households than cuts made by the Coalition.
April 6, 2017

Changes to Universal Credit needed says Joseph Rowntree Fund

The independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation says reform of the benefit system is necessary and Universal Credit remains the right thing to do. But it warns in a new briefing that a number of crucial changes are needed to ensure the reform tackles poverty and boosts living standards for low income families.
February 24, 2017

Inquiry into PIP and Motor Neurone Disease

There can be few things more devastating than to be diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND
December 11, 2016

Lord Freud, Peter Oborne, and welfare reform

Veteran journalist Peter Oborne rightly has a reputation for integrity and intellectual rigour.
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".