the future welfare state must be shaped by service...
There is an alternative to benefit cuts: the postwar welfare state was too paternalistic,but now the...
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a cradle to grave welfare system is best, but who...
Beveridge’s work is being celebrated but 75 years on – and with public mood poisoned – his...
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claiming disability benefit? don t ever dare shake...
Bethen Thorpe greeted her assessor the traditional way and promptly had her support axed. It seems...
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a no strings basic income? if it works for the...
A living wage for all of us,whether we’re in work or not, could rebalance the economy and create a...
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changeover to universal credit is driving people...
Waits of more than seven weeks for the first payment create arrears that can plague claimants for...
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distressed, ashamed and hopeless - the experience...
Despite a doctor’s diagnosis,walking miles every day to develop online job applications, or risk...
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the welfare rights adviser on a mission to shame...
From the frontline of benefits changes,Nick Dilworth wants to expose the fallout from this...
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cuts in council tax support are no joke for poorer...
April brought a further plunge in the number of councils offering comprehensive council tax...
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poor women have never had privacy . so why should...
The moneyed elites are furious at being subject to the kind of scrutiny that working-course mothers...
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if you think comfortable families don t get sucked...
Helen and her husband could cope with her sudden terrible illness – but carve after carve has left...
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citizen s income and economic ideas which are true...
Declan Gaffney (Even in Finland,universal basic income is too good to be true, 10 December) is...
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adam perkins: welfare dependency can be bred out ...
The author and academic argues that workless people breed children with job-resistant traitsAdam...
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the benefits cap on carers is discriminatory and a...
The cap has been ruled discriminatory and unlawful for full-time carers of disabled adult...
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vulnerable man starved to death after benefits...
44-year-stale died months after sickness and housing benefits were stopped following Atos...
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benefit cuts can have a devastating effect on...
The dreaded brown envelope from the DWP sent Sharon into psychosis. But her experience is not unique...
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the phantom benefit cheat is the perfect patsy for...
It’s in the governments interests to sustain promoting the very myths that sustain the benefit...
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fitness to work assessments are brutal, says...
Family of Michael O’Sullivan,who killed himself after losing his incapacity benefit, say Work...
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death has become a part of britain s benefits...
More than 80 people a month are now dying after being declared ‘fit for work’. The safety net...
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no one should die penniless and alone: the victims...
David Clapson was found dead final year after his benefits were stopped on the grounds that he...
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paul donnachie s benefits were suspended. months...
It seems a mix of incompetence and cruelty to expect someone like Paul,dealing with a severe mental...
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more than 85% of public tips on benefit frauds are...
Figures obtained by the Observer indicate that in the 1m alleged cases of benefit fraud keep forward...
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dwp to apologise to woman whose brother killed...
Health service ombudsman partially upholds Linda Cooksey’s complaint over case of her late brother...
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my friend s pip assessment brought to mind a...
The UK’s disability benefits system – like the church in Bruegel’s painting of the blind main...
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forget the gossip about ids and osborne....
Sick people like Paul Chapman face a benefits system that is either broken or inhumaneA few...
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labour urges new work and pensions secretary to...
Stephen Crabb’s first act in new job should be to ditch cut announced in budget,says his opposite...
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fit for work assessment was trigger for suicide,...
Report on death of Michael O’Sullivan blames work capability assessment and warns of risk of more...
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benefits claimants are shortchanged by £5bn a...
One million people a year do not receive full housing benefit,rebutting argument that they are being...
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benefits sanctions overused to reduce claimant...
Work and pensions committee hears that sanctions have seen millions withheld from claimants since...
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maximus fit for work tests fail mental health...
Whistleblower criticises benefits scheme race by US company,saying criteria meant he had to diagnose...
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emily has organ failure - yet her mother had to...
The DWP eventually gave a severely ill woman the help she was entitled to. But her mother felt she...
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michael fallon says uk is deadly serious about...
Defence secretary says government is determined to get four-year ban on in-work benefits for...
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jobcentre hit squads set up benefit claimants to...
Bosses accused of setting targets for sanctions,while unscrupulous staff targeted weak and...
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costs soar as wealthy councils rehouse families in...
Bill to house the homeless in Westminster rises by 63.5% as thousands of people moved to temporary...
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dwp may have to publish details of benefit...
Disability rights campaigners win appeal against government’s refusal to publicise investigations...
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disability benefit cuts could see 500,000 people...
Cuts to funding for ‘aids and appliances’ for the disabled could save around £1bn a year but...
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bereavement benefits can be paid even if couple...
Victory for mother of four children in Northern Ireland,whether upheld on appeal, could add millions...
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the dwp - a bureaucracy of outstanding brutality |...
How can the DWP axe benefits in an instant but be unable to reinstate them for weeks,leaving...
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even in finland, universal basic income is too...
It’s a lovely idea – but sadly UBI probably works best as a thought experiment to test concepts...
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cameron refuses to deny young britons may lose tax...
Manifesto proposal to remove in-work benefits from immigrants would also hold to apply to UK...
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families thousands of pounds worse off after years...
Austerity Generation report finds cuts to tax credits and universal credit contain damaged their...
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emily has organ failure - yet her mother had to...
The DWP eventually gave a severely ill woman the befriend she was entitled to. But not until her...
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universal credit claimants more likely to get...
Research finds 71% of UC claimants slither into work in first nine months of their claim compared...
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residents in stockton on tees dread the new series...
Exploiting destitute people’s difficult lives for the sake of entertainment risks doing long-term...
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underpaid disability claimants to receive up to...
Estimated 70000 Britons did not receive full entitlement after errors worth £340m by DWP staffTens...
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on the difference between political and technical...
One of the frustrating things approximately the centrist response to single payer proposals is that...
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disability benefit is broken. now even iain duncan...
When a proposal to scrap the notorious work capability assessment comes from a former Treasury...
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broken disability benefits need total overhaul,...
Fit-for-work tests and sanctions for those with chronic illness or disability should be...
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benefit delays put people at risk of hunger and...
Commons work and pensions committee says government must attain more to fix avoidable hold-ups and...
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scrap two child limit on benefits, say uks...
Policy will lead to rise in poverty and abortions,say Christian, Muslim and Jewish groupsChristian,...
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benefit cuts to hit huge number of children,...
Study identifies more than 330000 youngsters who will lose out in policy that will recall £300m out...
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changes to benefit system will halt income growth...
Planned cuts to welfare bill will also push thousands of children back into poverty,according to...
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thousands have died after being found fit for...
Campaigners demand welfare overhaul after statistics reveal 2380 people died between 2011 and 2014...
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appeal court rejects government challenge in...
Three judges uphold tall court ruling that emergency measures introduced in 2013 were incompatible...
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the department for work and pensions needs fixing...
Stephen Crabb,replacing Iain Duncan Smith at the DWP, wants to restore humanity to government...
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benefit sanctions are broken - and the government...
When 58% of jobseekers’ appeals against sanctions are successful,it’s clear the governments...
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benefit payments for 32,000 not paid in time for...
DWP blames 'administrative error' for some jobseekers,pensioners and people given social...
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