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Patrick Butler
Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor
August 2024
Carer's allowance crisis
Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’
Carer's allowance crisis
‘I was petrified’: how DWP threatened woman over carer’s allowance breach
Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Ending sexual violence on public transport is ‘absolute priority’, says minister – as it happened
RSPB criticised by watchdog for accusing politicians of being liars on X
UK’s biggest housing association fined over four-year failure to fix window
July 2024
Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds
Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners
Carer's allowance crisis
‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit
Carer's allowance crisis
Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal
Carer's allowance crisis
Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Starmer says Labour finding ‘more mess’ from Tories every day as he launches Great British Energy plan – as it happened
Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’
£5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils
Homelessness in England at highest level on record, watchdog says
UK politics: Zelenskiy asks Starmer to ‘show leadership’ and let Ukraine use weapons anywhere in Russia – as it happened
English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap
Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce
Vocal critic of carer’s allowance scandal to oversee the benefit as minister
Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected
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