26 h. ago Government reveal how people claiming three types of benefits will be targeted by new DWP crackdown

The Government are attempting to cut £8.6 billion over the next five years

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27 h. ago Spending more on benefits would be ‘wrong approach’, Jackie Baillie says

Scottish Labour’s deputy leader defended the UK Government’s welfare cuts as she said the rise in the benefit bill is ‘unsustainable’.

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28 h. ago State Pensioners entitled to 11 perks and benefits in April with plenty of freebies

People who are state pension age are entitled to a host of benefits, discounts and perks that are made are available from the government, local councils, charities and companies

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30 h. ago DWP confirms three benefits targeted by new bank checks clampdown first

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has updated the public regarding the crackdown on benefit fraud after the Government announced the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

Economics

40 h. ago DWP confirms three benefits will be first to face new bank checks crackdown

Three types of benefits will be targeted in specific measures to clamp down on benefit fraud outlined by the Department for Work and Pensions in Government guidance

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2 d. ago Welsh First Minister ‘reserving position’ on UK Government’s benefits cuts

Eluned Morgan told members of the Senedd she was waiting to find out what impact the benefits cuts would have on Wales.

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3 d. ago Objection to West Lothian welfare survey findings branded 'Trumpism in a kilt'

The survey in West Lothian found that the majority believed families should “take responsibility for their choices,” rather than receive mitigation payments supported to counter the two-child cap on benefits, which the Westminster government has introduced.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too | Andy Beckett

The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long termFor more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government’s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.From deportation videos to Keir Starmer’s declaration that “I like and respect” Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s talk of “tearing down regulatory barriers” in this week’s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago All the Labour MPs who have said they are opposing Rachel Reeves's welfare cuts

Government faces challenge from its own benches amid controversy surrounding benefits cuts

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4 d. ago Scottish Government will ‘look at every lever’ to avoid benefit cuts – Robison

It came after the Chancellor outlined cuts of almost £5 billion in her spring statement on Wednesday.

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4 d. ago Reeves’s benefit cuts to plunge 250,000 people into poverty, government admits

There was outrage as the chancellor announced yet more welfare cuts which are now set to affect 3.2 million families

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4 d. ago Spring statement: Should a Labour government be making these cuts? – Politics Weekly UK

Amid poor economic growth forecasts and global instability, Rachel Reeves is trying to balance the books by cutting spending on benefits. So why is a Labour government choosing this path? John Harris is joined by the Guardian’s political editor, Pippa Crerar, and political correspondent Kiran Stacey to unpick what was in the spring statement, and what it will mean for you Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Universal Credit and PIP changes explained in full as scale of impact realised

The Labour Government confirmed major changes to disability benefits Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Universal Credit (UC) as they aim to cut the social welfare bill by £5billion per annum

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4 d. ago Labour admits welfare squeeze will push another 250,000 Brits into poverty

In the Government's own assessment of its benefits changes, it was estimated an extra 250,000 people will be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2029/30.

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4 d. ago Reeves’ benefit cuts to plunge 250,000 people into poverty, government admits

An extra 50,000 children will also be left in poverty after the Labour chancellor’s move to slash £5bn from the welfare bill

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5 d. ago What time is Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement budget announcement?

The Chancellor is going to say she needs to go further, as DWP benefit cuts have not saved the Government enough

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5 d. ago Benefit cuts 'will have zero financial impact on Scottish Government', says Ian Murray

The Scottish Secretary said the SNP Government had been told that the welfare reforms would not result in its budget being cut.

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6 d. ago This government has one last chance to take a progressive path. Otherwise, we’re at the point of no return | John McDonnell

In her spring statement, I urge Rachel Reeves to look beyond short-term economic stability – and towards tackling long-term inequalityIf someone read out the following list of policies, which party would you think was in power? Depriving 2 million pensioners of the winter fuel allowance. Refusing to scrap the two-child benefit cap to lift nearly half a million children out of poverty. Raising tuition fees for students by more than the rate of inflation. Cutting overseas aid to the poorest people across the globe by half. Cutting £5bn from benefits for disabled people. Introducing a new round of cuts to government department spending and laying off 50,000 public sector workers.I very much doubt even 12 months ago you would have thought that this would be the Labour party in government.John McDonnell is the independent MP for Hayes and Harlington. He was shadow chancellor for Labour from 2015 to 2020 Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Scope chair 'willing to resign' over speaking out against Labour Government's cuts to disability benefits

Writing for the Standard, Sir Robin Millar described the welfare reforms as “disgraceful” and said Labour had lost its “moral direction”

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7 d. ago DWP universal credit changes to affect people on 11 benefits next month

The announcement comes just days after the government announced sweeping changes to PIP and other benefits

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