The House of Lords is on course for a confrontation with ministers as the upper house votes on the government’s proposed benefits reform.
The government is defeated in the House of Lords on its plans to cap the amount non-working households receive in benefits. Channel 4 News analyses the plans.
“Some of the 371,000 might have made substantial contributions to the exchequer through tax and National Insurance deductions for many years, and only claimed benefits for a short time.”
“At time of writing, it remains unclear how the government attempts to make the two key numbers match up.”
The amendment to hold an independent review of the welfare reform bill has been defeated by 229 to 213, Government majority 16.
Some of the UK’s biggest companies join the campaign to promote fairer work experience opportunities, as Cathy Newman takes two interns to meet Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Disability campaigners have urged the government to scrap many aspects of planned welfare reforms after several defeats in the Lords.
Amid growing fears of intergenerational conflict in difficult economic times, Saga’s Ros Altmann writes for Channel 4 News on why the needs, rights and talents of our ageing population matter.
Working parents and businesses will benefit most from George Osborne’s autumn statement, as the chancellor tries to boost the ailing UK economy. Channel 4 News looks at what to watch out for.
Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long finds the government’s employment support allowance is being dogged by endless and repeated appeals as claimants are found fit, then unfit, for work.
As the latest unemployment figures are released, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long looks at one group of people who seem to be particularly badly affected – women.
Today’s remarks by both David Cameron and George Osborne that the Chancellor won’t abolish the 50p tax rate in his autumn statement at the end of this month (levied on incomes of more than £150,000) have an important knock-on effect reports Michael Crick.
A couple who spoke movingly in a charity video about their “hand to mouth” existence in poverty have been found dead.
Young graduates tell Channel 4 News they are ‘treated as slave labour’ – but an online fightback gathers strength, with campaigners warning they will go to court to get payment.
Courts are to be given powers to strip criminals of up to £25 of their benefits payouts per week, in a move designed to hit back at many rioters who rampaged throughout England in August.