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  • 29 Apr 2013
    IDS and pensioners: undermining social security

    The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has urged better-off pensioners not to claim payments such as the winter fuel allowance, free bus pass and TV licence.

  • 8 Dec 2010
    Duncan Smith loses court battle to claw back benefit payments

    Anti-poverty campaigners have welcomed a Supreme Court decision to reject government attempt to claim back benefits they accidentally overpaid.

  • 12 Nov 2010
    Welfare specialists slam Duncan Smith's plans for benefits

    Welfare specialists have contradicted claims that government reforms will simplify the benefits system. They said the reforms could make it more complicated.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    Morally amazed

    I'd expected my views to be attacked when I appeared on the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 last night. What I had not expected was the extremism of the views pitted against mine. It's a sign of just how far to the right British politics has moved – particularly on issues of welfare and employment.

  • 12 Aug 2010
    Child poverty campaigners condemn Cameron's 'bounty' plan

    The Child Poverty Action Group have criticised a government plan to pay 'bounties' to credit reference agencies that help to expose benefit fraud.