Jackie Long
Disability claims backlog brings hardship and anxiety say campaigners
This piece is not news. It’s not new. The Department for Work and Pensions told me. Four or five times. But I thought it was worth marking anyway.
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Jackie Long
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‘Cost of living crisis’ returns to haunt government
Unemployment continues to fall, but pay growth drops significantly – despite government hopes that the so-called “cost of living crisis” is coming to an end.
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Paul Mason
This Happy Breed: what the heck are British values?
Like Michael Gove, I think there are such things as “British values”. It’s just that I probably won’t agree with him on what they are.
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Big Issue founder: my magazine gives a hand-up, not hand-out
As the work and pensions secretary says vendors of the Big Issue exploited a loophole allowing immigrants access to UK benefits, the magazine’s founder says the Big Issue saves the taxpayer money.
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Wooing Scotland: what are the pro-union parties offering?
The Conservatives are offering the Scottish parliament the power to set income tax if Scots vote to the stay in the union. What are the other main parties putting on the table?
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Jackie Long
Doubts over disability figures
A complaint about Department for Work and Pensions claims about Disability Living Allowance is upheld by the UK Statistics Authority.
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FactCheck: the great trickle from Bulgaria and Romania
We were promised a flood of immigration from Bulgaria and Romania, but the reality is more of a trickle, as FactCheck finds out.
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MPs ‘concerned’ that taxman can raid your bank account
An influential group of MPs says it has “considerable concern” over Chancellor George Osborne’s plans to allow the taxman to seize money directly from millions of personal bank accounts.
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Jon Snow
The visceral hatred of Westminister politics
Sex, greed, over-centralised politics, and London-centricity – they all play their part in the alienation from Westminster politics that many of us are finding within and beyond the M25.
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Brown calls on Scotland to reject independence
The former prime minister Gordon Brown makes his first major intervention in the Scottish referendum debate with a speech calling on the country to vote no to independence.
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Paul Mason
Life of a food bank user: no gas, no cooker, benefits delayed
Benefit delays or benefit sanctions are the major factor driving people to use food banks says the charity that runs hundreds of them across the country.
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Food banks: on the front line with Britain’s poorest
As new Trussell Trust figures show that food banks fed almost 1m people last year, Epsom and Ewell food bank manager Jonathan Lees writes from the front line.
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Pay increases finally exceed rise in cost of living
The government says Britain’s recovery is on track as official figures show average pay rises outstripping inflation for the first time in four years and unemployment continuing to fall.
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Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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FactCheck: Clegg/Farage – the lies to look out for
Clegg/Farage round two is almost upon us. Cut through the spin with FactCheck’s guide to the truth about Europe and immigration.
