Chancellor George Osborne has committed the government to a goal of full employment and said job creation would now form a central plank of the coalition’s economic plan.
The Department for Work and Pensions has terminated its contract with private firm Atos to undertake controversial fit-for-work assessments of people receiving incapacity benefits.
Chancellor George Osborne’s pension reforms will bring in a short-term boost for the public finances but have been criticised for a lack of consultation and long-term modelling of their impact.
Welfare spending across 26 benefits, including elements of the Universal Credit, is to be capped at £119.5bn from 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has announced
Delays in assessing people for the new disability benefits are unacceptably long, with some claims taking more than six months to process, MPs said today.
Local council tax support schemes introduced following the government’s welfare reforms have reduced work incentives in some part of the country, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Labour’s job guarantee for young people will be fully funded for the duration of the next Parliament through a levy on bankers’ bonuses and a cut in pension tax relief, the party said today
The government is set to miss its savings target from the new disability benefits because of a massive backlog in the assessment process, auditors said today
The government’s decision to scrap emergency welfare funding for local authorities could leave vulnerable people facing crises such as homelessness or domestic abuse without emergency assistance,...
Welfare reform minister Lord Freud has insisted the government’s controversial Universal Credit benefit is being rolled out in a ‘safe and controlled’ way after confirming the extension of the reforms
More than 3,600 people are now receiving the government’s Universal Credit benefit, the Department for Work and Pensions has said, ahead of the reform being expanded into two new areas later this...
No Scottish tenant will face eviction as a result of the so-called bedroom tax following an unprecedented Budget deal between Labour and the Scottish National Party Government at Holyrood.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has defended the government’s controversial Universal Credit benefit reforms, telling MPs he remained very confident the scheme would be successfully...
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today appealed to the UK government to lift the cap on discretionary housing payments after the Scottish Government found what it believes is the money needed to...
There are key questions about the beleaguered Universal Credit programme that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith must answer when he appears before MPs today, the Institute for Government...
Labour will consider reforms to council tax as part of its commission on town hall finances, shadow local government minister Andy Sawford has revealed
Economic migrants from outside the European Union should have to pay a £2,000 advance on National Insurance contributions when they enter the UK, a think-tank has recommended.
A committee of MPs has urged the government to change how the performance of the Jobcentre Plus network is monitored to ensure there is the greatest possible incentive to get people into work.
Four out of five local authorities reduced entitlement to help with council tax bills after responsibility for Council Tax Benefit was devolved to the local level last April, the Institute for Fiscal...
The next government should prioritise increases in the threshold at which National Insurance contributions are paid in a bid to ease the squeeze in living standards, CentreForum has said
