Chancellor George Osborne should use next week’s Autumn Statement to freeze spending on public sector pay, benefits and international aid and ignore calls to extend wealth taxes, the Centre for...
The government has defended its flagship scheme to find jobs for unemployed people, although only 2.3% of those taking part in the Work Programme found long-term employment in its first year.
The chancellor should use the upcoming Autumn Statement to end the council tax freeze for the most valuable properties and introduce two extra bands at the top of the scale, according to the liberal...
Voluntary and community groups in Northern Ireland have been urged to apply for a share of a £700,000 funding pot aimed at tackling rural poverty and social isolation.
Halfway through its term in office, the coalition is still looking for a route map to recovery. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement must offer some way out of here, argues Steve Freer
The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
CIPFA has criticised the government offer of cash for Council Tax Benefit schemes that limit the amount working-age people will have to pay as 'badly timed' and 'confusing'.
Long-term youth unemployment in England has increased by almost a quarter since the coalition government took power in 2010, the Trades Union Congress said today.
The government will cut another £10bn from the welfare budget within four years, targeting housing benefits for young people and payments for children, George Osborne told the Conservative Party...
Almost half of the charities involved in the government’s flagship Work Programme fear their contracts under the scheme are not sustainable and could collapse in the next six months, a survey has...
It is abundantly clear that George Osborne’s Plan A has failed. Instead of just waiting for something to turn up, he needs to use the Autumn Statement to launch a radical programme for economic...
Paying welfare benefits on a monthly basis and making claimants directly responsible for their rental payments could push some low-income households into debt, the Social Market Foundation has warned.
Next year councils take charge of business rates and council tax support. As the levels of both are heavily dependent on changes in local economies, finance departments will have to keep one step...
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston