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Spending Review: fairness, child benefit and tax credits
There was a lot to check out in the Spending Review – and we’ll keep on it for the rest of the week. But here’s a taster of the claims that caught FactCheck’s eye.
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Unemployment slightly down – but claimant count up
Official figures show the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s allowance has risen to the highest level since 1997, as the unemployment figure falls by 3,000.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s misleading Universal Credit claim
The policy only applies to a minority of Universal Credit claimants.
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FactCheck: has coronavirus destroyed more jobs than the Great Recession?
What we know so far about the effects of the crisis on unemployment.
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FactCheck: Labour aren’t telling the full story about free school meals
Despite what Labour’s claim appears to suggest, this is not a case of the government taking free school meals from a million children who are currently receiving them.
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FactCheck: is Theresa May telling the whole story about Labour’s time in office?
The Prime Minister said that under Labour, 1.4 million people spent most of the last decade on out-of-work benefits. But she didn’t mention that many of those people were on disability or illness benefits.
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Budget winners and losers: the tax cuts and welfare cuts
The chancellor announces income tax cuts for lower earners and a Living Wage in his summer budget, but is slashing the tax credits system.
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Ed Miliband sets out plans to cut benefits for young jobless
Unemployed youngsters should be stripped of out-of-work benefits unless they agree to training in vital skills, Labour leader Ed Miliband says.
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Should Labour be doffing its welfare cap to IDS? – FactCheck
Iain Duncan Smith has been on the airwaves justifying the welfare cap, claiming he’s stopping Labour’s out-of-control spending. Is he justified?
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Government Jobmatch site filled with duplicate job listings
The government’s Universal Jobmatch website continues to list potentially bogus and duplicated job ads, despite our recent investigations into its misuse.
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Why is government website carrying fake jobs?
The government’s Jobmatch website is carrying bogus vacancies from nine online recruitment agencies run by a Baptist deacon in Coventry, who makes money by encouraging visitors to post their CVs.
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‘I should have been revising but my family was homeless’
Lucy Broomfield, who turned 14 the week Northern Rock collapsed, writes for Channel 4 News about growing up in austerity-hit Britain.
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FactCheck: Everything you need to know about migrants and benefits
Is the latest “crackdown” on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants claiming benefits in the UK all it’s cracked up to be? FactCheck finds out.
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Cameron vows to ‘change the rules’ on EU benefits
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.
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Reeves: Labour will not scrap under-25 out-of-work benefits
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves says Labour would not consider scrapping out-of-work benefits for people under 25, after it was suggested by the IPPR think tank.