by Sam | 30 Sep 2014 | Employment, Welfare
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith yesterday delivered his speech at the Conservative Party Conference, where he defended the Government’s record that has fixed, according to him, numerous problems created under the Labour administration....
by Sam | 9 Sep 2014 | Welfare
The Financial Times (£) reports that the Resolution Foundation think tank has published a report claiming that Universal Credit risks creating incentives for people to limit their working hours so they can continue receiving benefits, as the design of the policy did...
by Chris Rogers | 17 Feb 2014 | Employment, Politics, Welfare
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions after it has emerged that claimants in one of the regions piloting the Universal Credit scheme has disappeared from official statistics on unemployment. The news came...
by Chris Rogers | 6 Feb 2014 | Welfare
A written parliamentary question from Rachel Reeves to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has uncovered that £612 million has been spent on introducing Universal Credit since 2010, a figure that amounts to £225,000 for each of the 2,720 people so far on the...
by Chris Rogers | 13 Jan 2014 | Welfare
Buy-to-let landlords have warned the Government that they could turn potential tenants away or even evict them if they are on housing benefit, amid confusion over whether the benefit will be paid to tenants rather than directly to landlords under the coalition’s...
