Making claimants wait six weeks for their first universal credit payment is “cruel” and should be cut from six weeks to one month as a matter of urgency, according to a cross-party group...
Councils could see a reduction in the money they receive to ensure a target numbers of homes are built in their areas, the housing minister has warned.
Councils in the UK have called on the government to pause or slow down the roll of universal credit as they divert their own scarce funds into helping financially struggling claimants.
The government should end the benefits freeze rather than increasing the personal tax allowance to help struggling families, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Only a tiny proportion of the extra £9.1bn allocated by the government for early years provision will reach the most disadvantaged children, a report for the Social Market Foundation has...
Parents working full time on the national living wage (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard, the Child Poverty Action Group has...
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
Cuts to working-age welfare could undo progress made in closing the gap in living standards between different ethnic groups in Britain, the Resolution Foundation has warned.
The number of families whose benefits have been cut increased to 68,000 in May this year following the introduction of the lower benefit cap, according to official figures released yesterday....
Council housing managers have urged the government to halt the rolling introduction of Universal Credit, which they said is causing “considerable hardship” to tenants.
The gig economy can offer some useful opportunities to people who struggle to work in conventional ways. The government should make the most of them, says Ben Dobson of Reform.
Public service leaders have expressed dismay over the Queen’s Speech failure to address public sector issues including pay, social care and local government funding.
A draft version of Labour’s manifesto has leaked revealing the party’s plans to end the public sector pay cap, build 100,000 council homes and nationalise the railways.
Facts and figures from the May edition of Public Finance magazine on unemployment trends, Scottish attitudes to independence and the ever-increasing retirement age
