Black universal credit claimants 58% more likely to get sanctions than white people, while mixed ethnic groups are 72% more likelyBlack and minority ethnic benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to be hit with universal...
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 MoreExclusive: Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall pledges to halt Tory ‘salami slicing’ of benefits, but Labour under fire for union pay deals Labour will end the blame culture aimed at people out of work and will...
Read MorePM endorses earlier comments by Bridget Phillipson amid brewing rebellion on policy among Labour MPsUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has indicated for the first time that he will consider scrapping the...
Read MoreBridget Phillipson says child poverty taskforce will looking into possibility as calls grow for immediate actionA cabinet minister has said for the first time that the government will consider removing the two-child benefit cap...
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...
Read MoreCampaigners say figure is shameful and that Tory policy is single biggest driver of child povertyThe Labour government has come under fresh pressure to abolish the two-child benefit limit after the latest official figures showed...
Read MoreGovernment under renewed pressure to scrap 2017 policy, as ‘shameful’ figures show more and more children affectedUK politics live – latest updatesThe Labour government has come under fresh pressure to abolish...
Read MoreIn the first instalment of a special series on the emblems of Tory Britain, the former prime minister Gordon Brown looks at the avoidable epidemic of hunger – which is getting worseIn Leeds, a child fails to turn up at...
Read MoreStudy finds strong correlation between local child poverty levels and percentage of families affected by capLocal child poverty rates across the UK correlate very strongly with the percentage of families affected by the...
Read MoreSingle people with long-term disability that stops them working will be much poorer after rollout, Resolution Foundation saysThe rollout of universal credit is on course to make thousands of working-age disabled people...
Read MoreHundreds of thousands could lose out in England and Wales under disability benefit reforms after general electionHundreds of thousands fewer disabled people could receive cold weather payments under the Conservatives’...
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