Iain Duncan Smith

The House of Lords is on course for a confrontation with ministers as the upper house votes on the government’s proposed benefits reform.

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.

The government says an extra 80,000 low income families will be eligible for help with the costs of childcare under new plans.

London Mayor Boris Johnson tells Channel 4 News that last week’s riots are an opportunity to look at gangs, economic regeneration in deprived areas, and the education of young people.

People from riot-affected communities joined politicians in a lively debate to discuss the causes of and possible solutions to recent riots in English towns and cities.

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.

Jamal Osman – a Somali refugee who’s lived in Britain for 12 years – gives his personal reply to Iain Duncan Smith’s call for British firms to recruit British workers, rather than those from abroad.

A call by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for businesses to recruit jobless British youths rather than migrant workers is impractical and probably illegal, experts tell Channel 4 News.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith urges businesses to recruit jobless British youths, rather than hiring migrant workers.

Around 8,000 disabled people have taken to the streets in London to protest against cuts to services and benefits. Channel 4 News hears why.

Thousands of disabled people protest in London against cuts to benefits and services – but the Minister for Disabled People did not attend, as Victoria Macdonald writes.

As the Government outlines plans to create a flat £140-a-week state pension to fix a system it says is “in crisis”, Channel 4 News looks at why less than half of people under 35 save for a pension.

As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through Parliament, disabled writer Lucy Glennon writes for Channel 4 News that the reforms could see the disabled become poor, isolated, and forgotten.