Benefits

Cracks in the government’s welfare strategy open up after allies of Iain Duncan Smith round on George Osborne for announcing a further £12bn in benefit cuts.

Council tax bills for some of Britain’s poorest households are set to more than double following the withdrawal of government grant.

Benefits Street, a Channel 4 show looking at the lives of benefits claimants in Birmingham, triggers police investigations, a flood of complaints and a row over whether the participants were tricked.

Landlord Fergus Wilson owns around 1,000 properties in Kent. He has served eviction notices on 200 families who depend on welfare to cover their rent. He explains why.

As benefits are tightened for migrants entering the UK, are Roma migrants being singled out unfairly by the government?

Migrants will be questioned about their English language skills before being able to claim income-related benefits.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith rejects claims that the introduction of the government’s flagship universal credit reforms is in chaos.

The coalition government sees its majority reduced to 26 in an opposition debate on the so-called “bedroom tax”, as Liberal Democrat MPs voice their disquiet over the controversial policy.

“Extraordinarily poor”: the government’s universal credit benefits system receives scathing criticism from the Public Accounts Committee, which said the DWP had wasted £140m on the scheme.

Penalising benefit claimants who are not deemed to be doing enough to find work is leaving people without any money to live on, according to research from the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Downing Street defends its crackdown on “benefit tourism” despite new evidence from the European Commission that it is “neither widespread nor systematic” in the UK. Is it merely a myth?

The Conservatives could prevent young people from claiming jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit if they win the next election.