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This is the harsh reality of the two-child benefit cap for families: ‘It’s like wearing a scarlet letter’
Two-child benefit cap

This is the harsh reality of the two-child benefit cap for families: ‘It’s like wearing a scarlet letter’

Employees working through sickness is costing UK businesses billions, think tank says
Sick leave

Employees working through sickness is costing UK businesses billions, think tank says

Rachel Reeves warns of ‘difficult decisions’ on benefits and welfare spending
Benefits

Rachel Reeves warns of ‘difficult decisions’ on benefits and welfare spending

GPs threaten to bring ‘NHS to a standstill’ with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal
NHS

GPs threaten to bring ‘NHS to a standstill’ with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal

Letters: How can we have a four-day week when some of us are working seven?
Letters

Letters: How can we have a four-day week when some of us are working seven?

DWP warned benefit claimants face ‘poor customer service’ and ‘long waiting times’
BENEFITS

DWP warned benefit claimants face ‘poor customer service’ and ‘long waiting times’

Dear prisons minister James Timpson… Every prisoner should have the opportunity to be creative
Dr Lorraine Gamman

Dear prisons minister James Timpson… Every prisoner should have the opportunity to be creative

I’m a union organiser in Coventry. Here’s how Amazon’s ‘union busting’ works
Stuart Richards

I’m a union organiser in Coventry. Here’s how Amazon’s ‘union busting’ works

‘Shameful stuff’: Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap
Two-child benefit cap

‘Shameful stuff’: Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap

Keir Starmer’s government is bringing power to local communities. We need that in social security
Ruth Patrick, Hayley Bennett and John Hudson

Keir Starmer’s government is bringing power to local communities. We need that in social security

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say

Liz Kendall wants to reform the DWP from a ‘department for welfare’ to a ‘department for work’
Department for Work and Pensions

Liz Kendall wants to reform the DWP from a ‘department for welfare’ to a ‘department for work’

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms
Department for Work and Pensions

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms

Letters: I’m an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here’s what private school taught me
Letters

Letters: I’m an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here’s what private school taught me

Rob Delaney: ‘Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long’
Politics

Rob Delaney: ‘Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long’

Labour ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap
Child poverty

Labour ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap

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Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks ‘criminalising’ poverty: ‘Some are out of options’
Shoplifting

Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks ‘criminalising’ poverty: ‘Some are out of options’

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: ‘Stressed out to the max’
Childcare

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: ‘Stressed out to the max’

Seven of the last nine PMs went to Oxford. Has it gotten us any closer to solving child poverty?
John Bird

Seven of the last nine PMs went to Oxford. Has it gotten us any closer to solving child poverty?

Scrap two-child benefit cap to end child poverty, Labour told: ‘Good intentions are not enough’
Child poverty

Scrap two-child benefit cap to end child poverty, Labour told: ‘Good intentions are not enough’