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Feeding America’s poor – why food stamps won’t go away
The USA may be one of the richest and most dynamic economies in the world, but one in six Americans receive help with their grocery bills in the form of food stamps, funded by the federal government.
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FactCheck Q&A: how will the new benefits cap work?
Do we really need another benefits cap? How will it work – and is it right to exclude pensioners?
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FactCheck: Osborne’s English lessons are no threat
The Chancellor’s threat to take away the benefits of anyone refusing to learn English is given an ‘F’ for fiction by FactCheck.
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Disability benefits reform kicks in
A new disability benefit is being rolled out across Britain – but there are concerns that the changes could see some disabled people lose out on support.
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Cuts to child benefit: here to stay?
Cuts to child benefit look like they’re here to stay, whoever wins the next General Election. Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, has now decided it would be too expensive to reverse the policy.
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Is the welfare bill really out of control?
Labour leader Ed Miliband is expected to commit to tougher controls on the amount spent on welfare payments in a speech later. But is it fair to claim that such spending has got out of hand?
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‘Bedroom tax’ blamed for woman’s suicide
A woman who committed suicide left a note blaming the government’s so-called “bedroom tax” for her death, her family says.
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FactCheck: IDS finally rapped by statistics watchdog
The chairman of the UK Statistics Authority backs our Fiction verdict on Iain Duncan Smith’s benefit cap claims.
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Rich and elderly? Give back your free bus pass, says IDS
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says better-off older people should hand back benefits like free bus passes and free TV licences if they do not need them.
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FactCheck: the benefit cap row
Iain Duncan Smith has been rapped by the statistics watchdog before. Critics now say he is misrepresenting government figures to defend the controversial cap on benefits. FactCheck investigates.
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Benefits should only be ‘a safety net’, says Grant Shapps
Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps says the government’s new benefits cap means no-one will be better off on welfare than in work.
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Benefits cap begins in London
A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.
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Do Shelter’s housing claims stack up? FactCheck
Shelter has released startling figures for how many families could find themselves homeless if they lose their job. Are they right?
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Iain Duncan Smith petition delivered to DWP
As the petition calling for Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week reaches nearly half a million signatures, the man who started it says it has sent “a powerful message to the government”.
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Duncan Smith defiant as disabled benefit changes bite
The work and pensions secretary says the current system is “ridiculous” and government reforms are simply “common sense”.
