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Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on how universal benefits such as winter fuel allowance and free bus travel may not suffer a “shock and awe” attack in next month’s spending review.
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?
If you step away from the details of bathplugs, unnecessary taxis and sibling cleaning contracts, there is a staggering picture emerging about the MPs who decide our laws. During the biggest housing boom in Britain’s history (and some economists argue in world history) many of the politicians who had the power to rein it in…
For the first time since she was acquitted of housing benefit fraud last week, Labour MP Apsana Begum has spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News about the 18 month legal battle which laid bare her life story, the loss of her father, and alleged domestic abuse.
Siobhan Kennedy
25-year-old Gemma Jupe has two children, one just weeks old. But she’s being evicted despite paying her rent on time because she’s on housing benefit.
A Kent landlord has hit the headlines for his plan to evict tenants on housing benefits. As rents keep rising and demand for property grows, Channel 4 News looks at what rights, if any, tenants have.
As wealthy landlord Fergus Wilson says he has no problems evicting tenants on housing benefit, even when not in arrears, his tenants tell Channel 4 News they are all nervous.
The Conservatives could prevent young people from claiming jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit if they win the next election.
Welfare Secretary Ian Duncan Smith announces changes to controversial cuts in housing benefit, dubbed the “bedroom tax” by opponents. Ciaran Jenkins reports.
Cuts to housing benefit for families with disabled children are “ludicrous”, “unfair” and “appalling”, according to a group of medical experts speaking exclusively to Channel 4 News.
The Department for Work and Pensions says there will be “no change” to its controversial housing benefit reform, dubbed the “bedroom tax”.
MP Mark Field says the reforms to housing benefit which will cut the income of social housing tenants deemed to have spare rooms is necessary to ease overcrowding for other families.
From April, an under-occupation penalty will be served on housing benefit claimants with a spare room or rooms. Dubbed the “bedroom tax”, Ciaran Jenkins explains how it works.
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.