The government is to ‘massively extend’ the tax-free childcare support available to working parents with young children, Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced...
A bigger share of public spending will be focused on health, pensioner benefits and debt interest payments by 2017/18, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
The public sector is ‘woefully underprepared’ for the impact of an ageing society and urgent government action is needed to avert a crisis in English health and social care services, peers warned...
More than half of the town halls developing new Council Tax Benefit schemes to take effect in April will receive cash to keep bills down, local government minister Brandon Lewis announced today.
Charities, housing associations and other local organisations should be given a greater role in employment services to ensure Universal Credit benefit changes do not damage deprived areas, according...
The coalition's flagship Universal Credit programme remains on track although it has been taken over by a Whitehall troubleshooter, the government's chief operating officer has insisted.
The government’s flagship Work Programme had an ‘extremely poor’ record of finding jobs for the unemployed in its first 14 months in operation, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
Child poverty campaigners are pressing councils to prioritise the needs of low-income families as figures published today showed wide disparities in wealth across the UK.
Revenue & Customs has missed its own target to cut fraud and error in tax credits, with more than £2bn in incorrect payments made in 2010/11, the National Audit Office said today.
Jobcentre staff coped well with the rise in unemployment following the financial crisis but could still be more efficient, the National Audit Office has concluded.
‘Far too many’ fit-for-work assessments are wrong, causing misery to benefits claimants and costing taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
Almost three-quarters of English local authorities will be demanding more in council tax from low-income families from April, the Resolution Foundation has revealed.
Councils could cut back-office costs by more than a third if they give ‘chip and pin’ style prepaid cards to people with personal care budgets, according to think-tank Demos.
Plans to replace the Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payments will penalise people with mobility problems and should be rethought, disability campaigners said today.
Plans to introduce a single ‘flat rate’ state pension from April 2017 could leave thousands of public sector workers out of pocket, unions have warned.
Former care services minister Paul Burstow has urged the government to fund a cap on adult care costs by means-testing the Winter Fuel Payment, currently paid to everyone aged 60 and over.