Government advisers call for review of rules that cause loss of household income when a child takes up job training Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are abandoning valuable job training opportunities because of a...
Read MoreResearchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent yearsMore than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at...
Read MoreDay-one rights to statutory sick pay and paternity leave begin on Monday, and that fits the pattern. From my own life, I know people’s anxieties, and I will respondStarmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts...
Read MorePM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday• Workers, pensioners and children: all better off. Ignore the critics – we really are standing up for working...
Read MoreFrom 6 April, low-income families can claim universal credit payments for all children living in the householdThe two-child benefit policy has been described as a “cap on childhood” and as it comes to an end, Claire*...
Read MoreFlawed Home Office travel records identified thousands of parents suspected of claiming while living abroadThe UK’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into a controversial government anti-fraud scheme...
Read MoreSelect committee chair accuses UK tax authority of ‘egregious error’ and of causing parents unnecessary ‘pain’UK politics live – latest updatesSeven in 10 parents who had child benefit suspended in...
Read MoreInternal documents show tax officials withdrew funds without warning families, despite concerns about dataUK politics live – latest updatesUK tax authorities believed that withdrawing child benefit payments from...
Read MoreExclusive: Chancellor says Reform leader wants to keep children in poverty based on skin colour after U-turnRachel Reeves has said she was angered by Nigel Farage’s suggestion that only British-born families should have...
Read MorePat McFadden, work and pensions secretary, says welfare system must do more to help people into work• What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy?The UK welfare system is not helping enough people into work...
Read MoreSeveral elements had already been announced, including lifting the two-child benefit cap and increasing free school mealsKeir Starmer has hailed his government’s plan to tackle child poverty as a “moral...
Read MorePat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, said the government was not ‘backing away’ from benefits changesThe UK welfare system is not helping enough people into work and has significantly rising costs, and no...
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