Tag Archives: benefit cap

Cap on benefit increases will do more harm to Wales than recession

A leading Welsh think tank has warned that the decision to cap benefit increases at 1% could end up doing far more harm to the Welsh economy than the recession itself. In concluding that the policy will “hit Wales hard” research published by the Bevan Foundation goes on to warn in stark terms: “the limit [...]

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Comment: Mean, miserable legislation from a mean, miserable government

By Caroline Lucas MP (Green Party, Brighton Pavilion) MPs are today debating a grossly unfair piece of legislation that proposes to sever the long-standing link between welfare support and inflation. If it makes it onto the statute books, the Welfare Benefit Uprating Bill will, without question hit the poorest in our society the hardest, including [...]

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Comment: Fairness in 2013

With ‘fairness’ representing a significant trend in last year’s political rhetoric and debate, Richard Bassford looks at whether this will continue into 2013.

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Building social housing would cut the housing benefit bill three times faster than a cap

Cormac Hollingsworth shows how social housing could be the best way to save money on housing benefit: Three times as effective as a cap.

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Why child benefit must be removed from the benefit cap

Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government’s proposed benefits cap.

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Are Pickles and Shapps misleading the public on homelessness?

Jenny Pennington, research assistant at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), examines Eric Pickles and Grant Shapps’s claims on homelessness.

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Boris fighting London’s corner on housing benefit cuts? Really?!

Jenny Jones AM, leader of the Green Party on the London Assembly, exposes the reality of Boris Johnson’s claim to be a champion of those hit by Housing Benefit cuts.

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One and half cheers for Lib Dem opposition to Osborne’s benefit cap

Declan Gaffney finds it possible to “agree with Nick”… well, almost – there may be some agreement over Lib Dem opposition to George Osborne’s regressive benefit cap.

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