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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.
The Guardian says Iain Duncan Smith claims that at present it is not worth going from the dole into work if the job pays £15,000 or less, but is it true?
Labour’s 2010 manifesto has been given the FactCheck treatment. For more read on.
FactCheck looks at a range of statements from the “Ask the Chancellors” debate on Channel 4
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls says Labour will stick with austerity, capping child benefit and pledging not to raise borrowing.
A government adviser recommends that parents of truants have their child benefit docked. Channel 4 News asks if the threat of fines for truancy actually works and speaks to a truant schoolgirl.
Certain kinds of working families will lose almost £60 per week of child benefits and working tax credit from April.
Chancellor George Osborne cuts the 50p rate of tax to 45p from April 2013 and announces changes to his plans to withdraw child benefit from all 40p taxpayers.
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the Chancellor’s Budget options – will he scrap the 50p tax rate and make changes to his plans to scrap child benefit for 40p taxpayers?
Planned cuts to housing and child benefit are at the centre of a political row. The head of MI6 has made his first public speech and we’ll debate the controversy surrounding English pronunciations.
Channel 4 News has learned that the budget given to new social housing will be reduced by up to 80 per cent and child benefits for the over-16s will be cut. Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
The axeman cometh and the cuts are already being revealed: child benefit for over-16s cut, the building of new affordable housing virtually stops and new aircraft carriers will sail without any jets.
Ed Miliband appoints Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor – and Johnson tells Channel 4 News that Labour will oppose changes to child benefit and the erosion of “the precious principle of universality”.