17 January 2013
The government has revealed in answer to a parliamentary question that 200,000 children will be pushed into relative income poverty by its bill to cut social security benefits and tax credits in real terms.
08 January 2013
MPs this afternoon have been debating the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill, at its second reading.
07 January 2013
A new report reveals that the government’s welfare benefit uprating legislation is based on bogus claims and is a poverty-producing bill that will further exclude the poorest workers, jobseekers, carers and disabled people from the mainstream of society.
20 December 2012
Five groups of young people from some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England have produced their own local area child poverty strategies.
05 December 2012
Despite all the talk, working families are once again at the front of the queue for spending cuts.
05 December 2012
Today's Autumn Statement by the Chancellor is expected to contain a number of announcements affecting low income families.
03 December 2012
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02 December 2012
The lead story in Monday's Independent is an open letter signed by more than 50 charities, trade unions and academics warning against more benefit cuts in this week's Autumn Statement.
