Chancellor’s comments come as fiscal watchdog says disability benefits will cost £100bn a year before end of decadeBusiness live – latest updatesJohn Healey had said there will be a reduction in the welfare bill before the next...
Read MoreAround one in eight 16- to 24-year-olds are ‘Neet’ – and Alan Milburn is hinting that the overhaul of their support may be controversialWith nearly 1 million young people not in education, employment or training (a cohort known...
Read MoreResolution Foundation says ‘crude changes’ to benefits system would probably make it harder for people to workBanning people with anxiety, ADHD or autism from claiming disability benefits would not deliver major financial...
Read MoreExclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive package of support to help young people into employment Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s...
Read MorePat McFadden urges Labour MPs to back overhauls, amid signs party looking to cut payments for some 16- to 24-year-oldsUK politics live – latest updatesLabour MPs have a moral responsibility to accept significant changes to the...
Read MoreOne of those waiting for Labour’s announcement explains why he depends on personal independence paymentsAdam Gabsi is unequivocal on the subject of his personal independence payment: “It really is an essential lifeline. I don’t...
Read MoreFormer shadow chancellor also says he is surprised at how poorly government has handled lead-up to policy changesBenefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and...
Read MoreImpact of abolishing policy would be dented unless overall cap is reformed, figures showTens of thousands of children affected by the two-child benefit limit may not be lifted out of poverty unless the overall benefit cap is...
Read MoreOne backbench Labour MP calls policy ‘heinous’ as more than dozen thought to support king’s speech amendmentKeir Starmer has come under further pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit after another of his backbench MPs...
Read MoreAlarm grows over possible pension cuts as research suggests Jeremy Hunt tax cut announcement was ‘blunder’Labour is to wage a new campaign to win over Tory-supporting pensioners in an attempt to neutralise one of the...
Read MoreExclusive: Policy misunderstands realities of caring roles and has left hundreds of thousands of families in poverty, study findsThe UK’s controversial two-child benefit limit, which restricts welfare payments to larger...
Read MoreIntensive ‘Restart’ programme is also struggling to find enough participants to meet predicted caseloadThe government’s flagship scheme to tackle long-term unemployment has failed to find a job for 93% of the...
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