A leading think-tank has disproved government claims that the June Budget was 'progressive', saying the measures introduced will hit the poorest hardest
The coalition needs to be more restrictive with health and welfare spending if it is serious about paying down the deficit and reforming public services, a Right-wing think-tank is warning.
Ministers are considering making young people on Jobseeker's Allowance take part in education, training or job schemes, the Department for Education has said
Housing groups are warning today that benefit reforms brought in under last month's Budget threaten to make three quarters of a million people homeless
Cutting Housing Benefit will not only affect those families that rely on it, but could widen the poverty gap and affect the recovery, says Campbell Robb
With unemployment heading for 3 million and a soaring welfare budget to cut, the coalition is tightening up eligibility conditions for claimants. But we've been here before, warns Dan Finn
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith today announced more details on the government’s pension plans, including the increase in the state pension age to 66
The government should exhaust every form of progressive taxation before reducing public spending, or it will risk passing a disproportionate amount of pain on to people on low incomes, a think-tank...
Proposals by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to ‘urgently’ reform the benefits system will be expensive and the worst off in society might have to cover the costs, think-tanks have...
The coalition government has set out its legislative programme for the next 18 months, with 23 Bills ‘based upon the principles of freedom, fairness, and responsibility’