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Welfare

August 2024

  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing<br>Shadow of a child on a playground swing - stock photo

    I have three daughters. These are the ways the two-child benefit limit affects us every single day

    Anonymous
    As politicians go back and forth on scrapping the policy, four of us are barely getting by on the money provided for three, says an anonymous single parent

31 July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

    Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty

30 July 2024

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

    Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the system

29 July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

    Chancellor suggests budget, on 30 October, will involve tax rises and cuts to spending and benefits

28 July 2024

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

    Carer’s allowance ‘cliff edge’ means it has to be paid back if a penny is earned over threshold. Carers tell their stories
  • Montage for of people including Stephen Timms

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

    Changes will be complex and expensive, but so is the moral and economic cost of not resolving this sorry tale of misery and injustice

    • Carer's allowance crisis
      Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

    • Shoplifting, tax evasion... If UK politicians break the rules, why shouldn’t the rest of us?

      Martha Gill

    • ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

25 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

    Keir Starmer has suspended seven of his MPs who rebelled against the whip to scrap the two-child benefit cap. So why won’t Labour scrap the controversial limit, and what does this first test of Starmer’s leadership tell us about the party’s financial position? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by columnist Gaby Hinsliff and former Downing Street chief of staff and Conservative peer Gavin Barwell to discuss the issue. Plus, the Conservative leadership race begins

24 July 2024

  • John McDonnell speaking in parliament

    Labour will be pushed to axe two-child benefit cap, says John McDonnell

    Former shadow chancellor claims rebellion a genuine point of conscience, not a coordinated attack on government

  • Keir Starmer clashes with SNP over two-child benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister – video

    Keir Starmer faced questions about a Commons rebellion on the two-child benefit limit during the first prime minister's questions since the election

    • Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap rebellion in first PMQs as PM

    • By disciplining MPs for voting to pull children out of poverty, Keir Starmer has shown us who he really is

      Owen Jones

    • Labour rebel says she ‘slept well’ after taking stand over two-child benefit cap

22 July 2024

  • Starmer delivering a speech during the opening day of the Farnborough international airshow on Monday.

    Keir Starmer indicates he will consider scrapping two-child benefit cap

  • Suella Braverman throws her head back laughing on a tour of a new construction training academy in Kigali, Rwanda

    What could £700m cost of Rwanda scheme have paid for instead?

17 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer in the House of Commons

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer warns ‘no quick fix’ for UK as he faces pressure over child poverty and benefits – as it happened

  • A person using a single-use vaping product

    Scotland and Westminster join forces on vaping, rail and renting reform

16 July 2024

  • Vaughan Gething.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Vaughan Gething quits as Welsh first minister but hits out at ‘pernicious’ claims of wrongdoing – as it happened

    His resignation comes after four Welsh ministers stepped down from their posts in an apparently calculated move to force his hand
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