MPs slam DWP’s ‘shocking’ handling of benefit claimant suicides
An influential committee has condemned the department’s total lack of proper processes when it comes to welfare claimants taking their own lives.
An influential committee has condemned the department’s total lack of proper processes when it comes to welfare claimants taking their own lives.
Last week, people hit by benefit cuts staged a dramatic demonstration on a train to highlight the impact of austerity. They have one aim: to raise hope.
The working poor and their children will suffer when the ‘merry-go-round’ stops
Annual cuts to key benefits will take £17.9bn a year from working families by 2016/17
If Osborne’s new plans to meet fiscal targets were to be implemented, public spending would hit lowest level since 1948
A new report suggests that young people identify several infringements of their rights in George Osborne’s economic policies.
Andrew Kaye, co-author of the Hardest Hit coalition’s new report, “The Tipping Point” writes about how the cuts are hitting disabled people the most.
Declan Gaffney examines Progress’ report on the support for benefits cuts in depth, and finds that it doesn’t show what it purports to show
Left Foot Forward’s Ed Jacobs writes about the disproportionate effect the welfare reforms will have on poverty in Wales and Scotland.