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MPs fear benefit reforms will open door to fraudsters
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Committee highlights concerns that IT system will have trouble distinguishing between genuine and fraudulent claims
Not so Universal Credit: Government puts the brakes on trials of its controversial new benefits programme
Thursday 28 March 2013
Ministers tonight significantly scaled back plans to begin piloting their controversial universal credit programme next month amid fears that the scheme is behind schedule and facing major problems.
Increase in 'house swaps' due to lack of social housing
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Significant numbers of people are looking to switch to a smaller home
Housing benefit bill: MPs warn that 'bedroom tax' will hit poorest
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Plans to slash the housing benefit bill partly by the introduction of the so-called bedroom tax could have a "severe impact" on the income of Britain's poorest people, MPs warn the Government today.
Austerity on the menu: food bank needs £1m to meet increased demand caused by 'Iain Duncan-Smith's welfare reforms'
Sunday 17 March 2013
Explosion in numbers dependent on hand-outs from 29,000 in 2009-10 to nearly 300,000 in 2012-13
Capable of 'work-related activity': Partially blind Thalidomide victim with brain tumour fights Atos decision to force her to attend interviews and put together CV
Friday 15 March 2013
A Thalidomide victim with a brain tumour who is blind in one eye and has trouble walking is battling against a decision by Atos that she is capable of “work related activity”.
Campaigners fight to save fund for disabled
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Six disabled people are taking ministers to the High Court over a decision to scrap a scheme enabling them to stay in their homes.
Disabled exempted from ‘bedroom tax’
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Parents with severely disabled children who are unable to share a room with their siblings are to be exempt from the Government’s under-occupation penalty, or so-called bedroom tax.
Welby’s call on welfare puts IDS on the defensive
Sunday 10 March 2013
Archbishop of Canterbury says children will be pushed into poverty by Government’s proposals
MPs hammer jobs scheme with 3 per cent rate of success
Friday 22 February 2013
The Government's multi-billion pound programme to get the long-term unemployed into work has been condemned as "extremely poor" by MPs.
20% of British children 'living in poverty'
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Constituencies in Manchester, Belfast and Glasgow are poorest for children
Government brings in trouble-shooter to get its Universal Credit benefits programme on track before launch
Monday 18 February 2013
Government takes action after flagship programme is hit by death of IT head and other staff problems
Matthew Norman on Monday: IDS gives Britain's jobless the doubts of his benefits
Monday 18 February 2013
Concerns that the Government is secretly operating a positive-discrimination scheme, whereby the possessor of a double-figure IQ is randomly selected for the Cabinet, were assuaged yesterday.
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'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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