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Welfare

August 2024

  • Kenan Malik

    Defending working-class interests requires more than simply opposing immigration

    Kenan Malik
  • Kendall in Downing Street smiling

    It’s time to end blame culture over benefits bill, says Labour minister

  • Two children playing on swings

    Today in Focus
    The two-child welfare limit: why won’t Labour scrap the cap? - podcast

  • A baby has their heart checked by a doctor with a stethoscope.

    Ditching two-child benefit cap would cut deaths and A&E admissions, study says

  • UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

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

    Anonymous

30 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

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

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
  • Images of carers

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

    Exclusive: Teachers and NHS staff forced to take desperate measures to avoid falling foul of earnings limits, says ‘devastating’ study

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

    • 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

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