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Benefits

24 July 2024

  • Zarah Sultana

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

  • Rachel Reeves speaking at a podium with the union flag behind her

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

23 July 2024

  • A young girl in school uniform sat on a stool in the middle of a room using a mobile phone.

    Overhaul UK benefits to tackle child poverty, charities urge

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

    Labour suspends seven rebels who voted to scrap 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

  • A Jobcentre Plus sign on the outside of a building

    Integrate NHS services and job centres to get more people working, report says

20 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

  • Bridget Phillipson in her new departmental office.

    Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’

19 July 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee
  • A child's foot in a pink sneaker dangles below the pedal of a yellow trike on a wooden floor

    Parents saving up to £10,000 in nursery benefits may face unexpected tax bills

17 July 2024

  • illustration of family with five children sitting around a dinner table

    ‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap

    As Labour backbenchers call for Keir Starmer to scrap the cap, families reveal their struggles as a result of the two-child limit
  • eviction notice on a door

    When social housing policy leaves children bereaved and homeless

    Letters: Readers respond to an article that lays bare how relatives can find themselves evicted after a death in the family

    • Keir Starmer appoints two influential leftwing critics as government advisers

    • Guardian Opinion cartoon
      Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

    • 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
  • The Beatles give a news conference in New York, in August 1966

    Brief letters
    John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus

    Brief letters: Lennon and Christianity | Pepys loses it | Two-child cap | Guardian delivery | Gareth and Gove | MPs and buses

    • Vocal critic of carer’s allowance scandal to oversee the benefit as minister

    • We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

      Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous

    • Where’s the cash for child hunger? Labour is running out of time to find it

      Frances Ryan
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