A ‘regressive’ review that will impact well beyond benefits and state workers
Faisal Islam blogs on today’s Spending Review and finds it a “perfectly regressive review”.
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The claim “This Code will make it easier for some parents – like those setting up free schools – to get the school they want, but by weakening the system overall, it will make it harder for the majority of parents.”
The claim “It is true that we are thinking of putting up the reduction to a half. It makes an enormous difference to costs, police time and the involvement of unnecessary preparations for trial if everybody leaves guilty pleas to the last possible moment.” Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, House of Commons debate, May 17, 2011
Half a million people ‘on the sick’ are really fit to work, the Government estimates. But how realistic are the claims behind the benefits shake-up?
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through Parliament, disabled writer Lucy Glennon writes for Channel 4 News that the reforms could see the disabled become poor, isolated, and forgotten.
The Government unveils its Welfare Bill, hailing it as the biggest reform of the benefits system since its inception. But Channel 4 News hears from people who remain worried by the changes.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says “a life on benefits will no longer be an option for somebody”. But Channel 4 News has found figures suggesting that this is already the case.
The Government unveils its Welfare Bill, hailing it as the biggest reform of the benefits system since its inception. But Channel 4 News hears from people who remain worried by the changes.
“It is also important we end the sensationalist myths about the local housing allowance reforms in 2011…In London around 750,000 private rental homes will still be affordable.” Lord Freud, minister for welfare reform, South London Press, January 11, 2011.
A study into child poverty by Labour MP Frank Field says disadvantaged families should be offered more support rather than benefit increases and tax credits.
The claim “We’re going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it’s jolly expensive, but for those on benefit there is every incentive.” Lord Flight, interviewed by the Evening Standard, 25th November 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out Howard Flight first said his remarks had been taken out of…
FactCheck analyses David Cameron’s claim that Labour supports the government’s plan to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in state-funded care homes.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith tells the long-term unemployed to “play ball” or face losing benefits under proposals contained in the welfare reform white paper.
Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, signals cracks in the coalition as he tells Channel 4 News housing benefit cuts will not get through parliament.
Faisal Islam blogs on today’s Spending Review and finds it a “perfectly regressive review”.
Faisal Islam blogs on how the government’s spending cuts will hit child benefits, tax credits and social housing hard.