Gary Gibbon
There is a major Labour operation going on to try to make sure that Labour doesn’t get labelled as some sort of “scrounger’s friend” in the Lords votes on welfare today and it’s making some Labour peers I’ve spoken to pretty unhappy.
With the House of Lords voting on the proposed £26,000 benefits cap, Channel 4 News looks at how the government’s plans will affect people across the country.
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.
As Channel 4 begins a series highlighting the 2 million families who lack adequate housing while nearly 1 million homes lie empty, a charity tells Channel 4 News the government ‘could do more.’
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.
Jon Snow’s investigation into rogue landlords for Dispatches learns that despite warnings to the government about the scale of the problem, cuts to local authorities are making things even worse.
A top-level leak reveals deep concerns over Treasury plans to limit total household benefits to £500 a week. Ministers fear the move could force tens of thousands of people out of their homes.
Just how much will the affordable rent programme cost? Millions or billions? FactCheck investigates.
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.
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.
In a White Paper published today, the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, sets out his plans to cut Britain’s £192 billion benefits bill and unveil the new universal credit.
Trading statistics was the order of the day when Douglas Alexander and Iain Duncan Smith went head to head in the Commons, but did the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions get his attack right?
London Mayor Boris Johnson faces calls to apologise for “appalling” comments about the housing benefit row, after vowing not to accept “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in the capital.
If the government wants to take on the idea of what people can expect the state to provide, it is probably only a matter of time before somebody points the spotlight on the people making the rules for the rest of us again, and asks: “Why should they get any more than us?”