A ‘regressive’ review that will impact well beyond benefits and state workers
Faisal Islam blogs on today’s Spending Review and finds it a “perfectly regressive review”.
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The claim “We’re going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it’s jolly expensive, but for those on benefit there is every incentive.” Lord Flight, interviewed by the Evening Standard, 25th November 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out Howard Flight first said his remarks had been taken out of…
FactCheck analyses David Cameron’s claim that Labour supports the government’s plan to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in state-funded care homes.
More than half of the British public support the Coalition’s planned changes to the benefit system, an exclusive YouGov/Channel 4 News survey shows.
London Mayor Boris Johnson faces calls to apologise for “appalling” comments about the housing benefit row, after vowing not to accept “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in the capital.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has joined the housing benefit row, saying he would resist “Kosovo-style social cleansing”. Housing Minister Grant Shapps tells Channel 4 News his language was not sensible.
FactCheck analyses Chancellor George Osborne’s claim that measures in the spending review will not increase child poverty
Faisal Islam blogs on today’s Spending Review and finds it a “perfectly regressive review”.
As hundreds of incapacity benefits are reassessed under the government’s plan to reform the welfare system, Channel 4 News hears from a claimant worried that changes may affect his health.
CutsCheck looks at Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that benefit claims will be capped
Child benefit is being withdrawn from families who pay higher rate tax and there’s a whiff of ministerial rebellion in the air.
Faisal Islam blogs from the Conservative Party Conference as Chancellor George Osborne announces an end to universal family benefits.
Chancellor George Osborne announces a tough new cap on the amount of benefits to be claimed by any family. Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam says that around 50,000 families will be affected.
David Cameron drops some heavy hints on universal benefits as Conservative Party Conference opens
Millions of people who claim welfare benefits could see them scrapped – and replaced with one “universal credit” under a deal agreed with the Treasury.
David Cameron says benefit fraud and error costs £5.2bn a year. FactCheck with Cathy Newman investigates the numbers.