welfare reform Articles

We are at a key point in the influence of different generations on our society. The pre-1945 generation is dying out and being replaced in the adult population by generation Y whose members have a very different perspective. The national balance of opinion is shifting...

Today's PMQs was not one to light up the fires of political passions. But it did focus on one important and divisive issue: social housing. The government's so-called 'bedroom tax' is set to charge those living in social housing around £60 per month for bedrooms...

Public spending decisions will be painful for Labour but could also improve the party’s credibility Unless you have more faith in George Osborne’s ability to run the economy than the official forecasts, you have to assume that whoever wins office in 2015 will inherit...

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...