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Benefits

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

    • The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

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

25 July 2024

  • Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

    Seven rebel MPs who supported an SNP amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap are suspended for six months
  • Small boy playing in a park

    Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap

    Letters: The government can’t be taken seriously on child poverty, writes Alan Sharkey, while Mike Sheaff decries the suspension of rebel MPs. Plus letters from Leah Key and Peter Brooker
  • 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

  • A graffiti sign reading 'food bank' on a wall as a man walks by

    Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

  • John McDonnell speaking in parliament

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

  • John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Ian Byrne, Zarah Sultana.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s rebellion: removing the whip is a step too far

  • Keir Starmer stands and speaks in the House of Commons during his first Prime Minister's Questions as prime minister, Wednesday 24 July; his ministers are seen on the bench behind him

    Keir Starmer’s show of force sends message to his backbenchers

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer’s suspension of the whip from rebel MPs – cartoon

  • Brief letters
    Why I’m saving my hat for Polly Toynbee

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister – as it happened

  • My vote was a plea for Labour to tackle child poverty. Its response? To suspend me

    John McDonnell

  • Labour will fail in government if it does not reduce inequality, says new MP

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

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

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