The strategy for tackling child poverty should be overhauled, with more funding targeted during the first five years of life, according to a major review published today
Ministers have confirmed that they will delay cutting Housing Benefit for existing claimants, and will introduce incentives for private landlords to drop their prices.
The value of public sector pensions has fallen by a quarter even before reforms in Lord Hutton’s review are implemented, according to a study published today.
David Cameron was quizzed about the Comprehensive Spending Review by senior MPs this afternoon, resulting in a particularly lively tussle over the changes to Housing Benefit.
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
The Comprehensive Spending Review should have produced tougher measures on welfare reform and done more on job creation, according to ordinary members of the public
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith today set out the details of his £2bn Universal Credit benefit system, pledging it would ‘start to change’ a culture of worklessness among Britain's...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned MPs that changes to Council Tax Benefit, outlined in last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, mean that local authorities have both an incentive and a...
The radical reform of Council Tax Benefit set out in the Comprehensive Spending Review has ‘many downsides’ and would penalise poorer households, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned
The Housing Benefit bill is likely to soar after Chancellor George Osborne confirmed that rents for new social housing tenants will rise to 80% of the market rate, Public Finance has learnt
Public sector employees should make higher contributions to their pension schemes, which should not be based on final salary levels, according to an eagerly anticipated government-commissioned report.
The government programme to find work for unemployed people is in jeopardy because there are not enough available jobs, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said
Decisions over benefit payments should be localised and welfare spending incorporated into pooled area-based budgets, the government has been told today
Proposed reforms to the welfare and benefits system appeared to be in jeopardy this week after talks between the Treasury and Department for Work and Pensions stalled and analysts said the plans were...