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• Universal credit timetable slips again

  22 Oct 2014: DWP insists it remains on course to secure savings even though less than 15,000 claimants are currently on new benefits system

• Duncan Smith: universal credit will generate £7bn in economic benefits

  22 Oct 2014: Work and pensions secretary says scheme will bolster economy by allowing an extra 300,000 households to enter employment

• Benefit fraud – the facts and figures

  21 Oct 2014: Homa Khaleeli: The government is launching a £1m advertising campaign to tackle benefit fraud. But is it money well spent? Here are some figures to help you decide

• David Cameron vows to create 3m apprenticeships

  20 Oct 2014: Cut to welfare cap and removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year-olds on jobseeker’s allowance will pay for new scheme

• Labour calls Commons vote over Lord Freud comments on disabled workers

  19 Oct 2014: Shadow ministers say it is disgraceful that David Cameron has not removed Freud from his post as welfare minister

• Pay us the minimum wage – because we’re worth it

  16 Oct 2014: Letters: Lord Freud was talking about a minority whose work could never justify the minimum wage, not the majority who could contribute fully

• Welfare spending cap plans hit by rising housing and incapacity benefit bills

  16 Oct 2014: OBR also warns public finances suffering despite the recovery as workers take low-paid jobs so pay correspondingly less tax

• Lord Freud’s comments about disabled people ‘deeply distressing’, says Clegg

  16 Oct 2014: Deputy prime minister tells Call Clegg show that welfare minister was wrong to suggest someone could be ‘worth’ less than others

• There’s nothing unchristian about Ukip’s family values

  16 Oct 2014: Richard Lucas: Some criticise Ukip for wanting to restrict healthcare to British citizens only, but without a sense of community welfare can too easily fall apart

• Steve Bell on Lord Freud and welfare reform – cartoon

  Cartoon, 15 Oct 2014:

  Labour calls for welfare minister to be sacked for saying some disabled people were 'not worth' the minimum wage

• We should stand up for people on benefits

  15 Oct 2014: Letters: The least well-off, in work or not, did not cause the deficit, triggered by trillions in bank bailouts and subsidies. Why should they be penalised?

• The Tory message to disabled people: you’re just not worth it

  15 Oct 2014: Frances Ryan: Lord Freud’s comments on the minimum wage articulates what we already know – the government sees disabled people as less than human

• Cut corporate privileges to salvage our democracy

  12 Oct 2014: Letters: These aren’t ‘business-friendly’ policies. They are ‘elite-friendly’ policies. It isn’t a ‘free market’. it is ‘a state-endorsed oligarchy’, as George Monbiot puts it

• Ed Miliband: we will introduce tougher rules on benefits for new migrants

  11 Oct 2014: Labour leader says right to welfare ‘must be earned’ and admits that the recent success of Ukip is a real danger

• Cut benefits? Yes, let’s start with our £85bn corporate welfare handout

  6 Oct 2014: Aditya Chakrabortty: Billions of pounds of British public money has gone to business, with Disney getting £170m. They really are taking the Mickey

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