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council tax benefit Articles

Welfare chaos and coalition incompetence

If you are a coalition minister in the DWP or Treasury you are in a bad place when even the rightwing Institute of Economic Affairs describes your performance on child benefit changes as ‘probably the single most incompetent change to the benefits system since the...

Stealth cuts hitting cities hardest

A day after thousands of students marched in London against the well documented and unfair hiking of tuition fees, it is worth considering a less well known form of unfairness around student funding. Students are right to be angry about tuition fees rising – people...

Universal credit: a briefing for progressives

Last week, the government unveiled its long-awaited welfare reform agenda. Its flagship proposal is the universal credit – a single income replacement benefit for working age adults. This rundown captures some of the main elements of interest for progressive readers.

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