work and welfare Articles

How Labour should respond to the budget’s pensions shake-up Labour and the Tories share a perverse incentive to talk down the economy just at the time that economic growth begins to soar. George Osborne and David Cameron, acutely aware that their strongest trait in...

Employment and support allowance. Work capability assessments. Atos. Few now doubt that these coalition welfare reforms have failed sick and disabled people spectacularly. Tragically, we knew that ESA was failing from the early pilots. But they were only affecting a...

It is almost a textbook example of how not to do government. Today my colleagues and I on the work and pensions select committee have released a report on the performance of the Department for Work and Pensions, and the rollout of personal independence payment stood...

Why does Benefits Street make us so angry? Yes, it exploits people, but so do such Reithian delights as ‘My Daughter The Teenage Nudist’, ‘The Undateables’ or ‘Secrets of the Living Dolls’; exploiting people for public entertainment seems to be Channel 4’s raison...