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3 Apr 13
This month, local authorities face one of their trickiest balancing acts yet. They have to meet the twin challenges of government changes to council tax support and business rates, without losing out...
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3 Apr 13
MPs today urged the Department for Work and Pensions to re-examine the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’, warning that the Housing Benefit reductions could hit divorced parents and disabled people.
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2 Apr 13
Chancellor George Osborne today insisted that the welfare reforms taking effect this month were fair and would ‘make work pay’.
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2 Apr 13
The controversial ‘bedroom tax’ is the latest in a tsunami of benefit cuts. And with Housing Benefit caps and cuts to disability payments, claimants are feeling the squeeze. Claudia Wood investigates
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27 Mar 13
The government needs to ensure people without internet access do not lose out as more public services, including Universal Credit, are moved online, the National Audit Office said today.
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26 Mar 13
Next week’s Housing Benefit cuts could have ‘a severe impact’ on the poorest people in the UK, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
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25 Mar 13
Scottish local authorities today criticised the UK government’s ‘extreme and ill thought-out’ welfare reforms, warning they could have ‘a real and long-term damaging effect on the most vulnerable in...
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25 Mar 13
Prime Minister David Cameron has today announced plans to restrict migrants’ rights to council housing and welfare benefits.
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22 Mar 13
The head of the Social Market Foundation has challenged the chancellor’s claim that Annually Managed Expenditure is ‘out of control’ and warned that the proposed reforms will be ‘tricky’ to implement.
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19 Mar 13
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...
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18 Mar 13
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.
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14 Mar 13
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...
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12 Mar 13
The government has agreed to exempt more groups from its controversial ‘bedroom tax’ following sustained pressure from MPs and campaigners.
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5 Mar 13
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.
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4 Mar 13
Councils in England have helped to improve the lives of more than 1,600 problem families in just nine months, according to figures published today.
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4 Mar 13
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...
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28 Feb 13
The number of councils concerned about the impact of Whitehall policies has doubled in the last year, an analysis by Grant Thornton has found.
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28 Feb 13
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.
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22 Feb 13
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.
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20 Feb 13
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.
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13 Feb 13
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.
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13 Feb 13
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.
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11 Feb 13
Local authorities have agreed a deal with ministers to help vulnerable benefit claimants apply for the new Universal Credit online.
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8 Feb 13
‘Far too many’ fit-for-work assessments are wrong, causing misery to benefits claimants and costing taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
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8 Feb 13
More than 2 million deprived children in the UK are not counted in the government’s child poverty measures, the Policy Exchange think-tank said today.
3 Apr 13This month, local authorities face one of their trickiest balancing acts yet. They have to meet the twin challenges of government changes to council tax support and business rates, without losing out...
3 Apr 13MPs today urged the Department for Work and Pensions to re-examine the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’, warning that the Housing Benefit reductions could hit divorced parents and disabled people.
2 Apr 13Chancellor George Osborne today insisted that the welfare reforms taking effect this month were fair and would ‘make work pay’.
2 Apr 13The controversial ‘bedroom tax’ is the latest in a tsunami of benefit cuts. And with Housing Benefit caps and cuts to disability payments, claimants are feeling the squeeze. Claudia Wood investigates
27 Mar 13The government needs to ensure people without internet access do not lose out as more public services, including Universal Credit, are moved online, the National Audit Office said today.
26 Mar 13Next week’s Housing Benefit cuts could have ‘a severe impact’ on the poorest people in the UK, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
25 Mar 13Prime Minister David Cameron has today announced plans to restrict migrants’ rights to council housing and welfare benefits.
22 Mar 13The head of the Social Market Foundation has challenged the chancellor’s claim that Annually Managed Expenditure is ‘out of control’ and warned that the proposed reforms will be ‘tricky’ to implement.
14 Mar 13The 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...
12 Mar 13The government has agreed to exempt more groups from its controversial ‘bedroom tax’ following sustained pressure from MPs and campaigners.
28 Feb 13The 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.
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