How each party will alter benefits spending on each generation
How much The Resolution Foundation came up with the following graphs to show how the three main UK parties are altering the graph lines on inter-generational benefits distribution.
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Latest figures show more than two thirds of people who appeal a decision finding them fit for work have that decision overturned at tribunal, but the government insist the system is working well for most people.
Figures out today show that there are now more than four million children living in poverty in the UK.
68,000 households have had their benefits cut for the first time, losing around £50 a week under a government cap designed to slash the welfare bill. And the latest figures show that the cuts are still hitting thousands of single parents with children under two. That’s despite a high court ruling back in June that…
The government’s benefit cap policy was ruled to be unlawful in June. But new figures show more single parents are subject to the cap than before. FactCheck investigates.
How much The Resolution Foundation came up with the following graphs to show how the three main UK parties are altering the graph lines on inter-generational benefits distribution.
Charities claim hard-hit families could lose thousands of pounds a year – thanks to the two child limit on universal credit. We meet those already struggling to manage.
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The Prime Minister said “we now know that, at any one time, around 40 percent of all recent European Economic Area migrants are supported by the UK benefits system”.
The explosion in tablet computers and smartphones has turned British children into a nation of technology junkies, according to an exclusive Channel 4 News poll released today.
Will the poorer get poorer after the benefit changes announced by George Osborne? Darshna Soni meets a single mum with eight children, who is worried she could be evicted because of the welfare cap.
Nurseries warn the childcare system faces “meltdown” unless planned government changes to double care are fully funded.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage says he wants to return to a time when children played football in the streets in the evening. But what is stopping them playing there now?
As a coroner says the upset caused by the potential withdrawal of benefits triggered the suicide of Julia Kelly, Channel 4 News looks at the wider impact of benefit changes on vulnerable claimants.
The cost of a part-time nursery place for a child under two goes over £6,000 a year for the first time, according to research by the Family and Childcare Trust.
David Cameron says lowering the benefit cap will be the first thing he does if he is re-elected in May, arguing it has succeeded in getting people into work. Has it?