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No fairytale ending for Osborne’s welfare reforms
This is the moment when we get George Osborne’s famed fairytale scrounger, idling in bed with the curtains drawn all day, up and off his backside and into work. Or do we?
Should we credit Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith when he insists that his universal credit project will come in on time and in budget? FactCheck casts a sceptical eye.
The government is criticised by the public spending watchdog for the way it has handled preparations for its new universal credit, with ministers unsure how it would work and £34m written off.
The new benefits cap, meaning couples and lone parents can receive no more than £500 a week from the state, is rolled out from Monday. But David Cameron’s Twitter endorsement of the cap backfires.
The chairman of the UK Statistics Authority backs our Fiction verdict on Iain Duncan Smith’s benefit cap claims.
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.
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.
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.
The work and pensions secretary says the current system is “ridiculous” and government reforms are simply “common sense”.
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”.
Iain Duncan Smith says he could live on £53 a week – but could he? Channel 4 News looks at the numbers and speaks to one woman who is struggling to cope on this amount of money.
This is the moment when we get George Osborne’s famed fairytale scrounger, idling in bed with the curtains drawn all day, up and off his backside and into work. Or do we?
As a raft of benefit changes finally come into play today, MPs brush off criticism from churches and charities to insist the new system will be “fairer”.
When Iain Duncan Smith came to Easterhouse in Glasgow more than a decade ago, he pledged to change the system to help some of Britain’s poorest. But the change has not been what residents hoped for.
Welfare Secretary Ian Duncan Smith announces changes to controversial cuts in housing benefit, dubbed the “bedroom tax” by opponents. Ciaran Jenkins reports.
A flat-rate state pension from 2017, worth £144 for new pensioners, is announced by the government, amid warnings of a “con trick” and fears of a demand for higher contributions.