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Can abnormal behaviour affect the welfare policy debate?
Is it right to use the extraordinary case of Mick Philpott to rationalise changes to the benefits system.
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Ed Miliband commits to sticking with coalition spending plans and rules out more borrowing to reverse public spending cuts.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says better-off older people should hand back benefits like free bus passes and free TV licences if they do not need them.
Is it right to use the extraordinary case of Mick Philpott to rationalise changes to the benefits system.
Iain Duncan Smith says he could live on £53 a week – but could he? Channel 4 News looks at the numbers and speaks to one woman who is struggling to cope on this amount of money.
If you are one of the two million people who have not submitted a tax return, you need to get a move on – failing to do so by Thursday means a financial penalty.
A flat-rate pension, equivalent to about £144 in today’s money, is being introduced from 2017. But there are more losers than winners in the new system, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg insist their parties remain “steadfast and united” as they outline new reforms to mark the midway point of the coalition government’s first term.
As the prime minister threatens to block closer eurozone integration unless Britain is allowed more powers, Grant Shapps tells Channel 4 News that Britain’s relationship with the EU “needs to change”.
George Osborne says the richest will pay the most after the Autumn Statement. FactCheck isn’t quite as convinced.
As Chancellor George Osborne delivers his autumn statement on the economy and spending, we gather some alternative suggestions on to how to tackle the country’s fiscal woes.
With one-in-four UK children living in poverty, critics fear the coalition’s benefit cuts pose serious risks to the most vulnerable: the cutback kids growing up in a decade of debt.
The implication is clear enough: George Osborne believes benefit claimants should think long and hard before having children – or risk losing some of their state support.
Prime minister David Cameron signals a new welfare crackdown which could see thousands of young people stripped of housing benefit and forced to live with their parents.
Immigration Minister Damian Green has claimed that tens of thousands of people who come to the UK for marriage and are eligible for benefits claim them. FactCheck tries to find them.
Iain Duncan Smith may have said he wants to make work pay, but the department for work and pensions has been written to by its own cleaners who say they aren’t paid enough to live on. FactCheck looks at their demands for a “living wage”.