Benefits
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Benefits diaries
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Meet the authors
Meet the writers behind our Tumblr benefits diaries interactive - telling the real story behind the government's welfare reforms
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Universal credit and a new childcare voucher forecast to hit struggling lower-income households hardest
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The most expensive council homes ever sold went under the hammer this week in the capital – but it came with a group of squatters protesting at the shortage of affordable housing
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People struggling to look after ill or disabled loved ones often aren't aware there is help in the form of allowances
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Mary O'Hara: Dole Animators video features jobseekers talking about their struggles to find work, aiming to challenge the picture of them as 'skivers'
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It's back to the bleak 1980s in Liverpool as hard-working people are forced to sit in the dark to save on fuel bills
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Barbara Ellen: The plan to make the unemployed work for their benefits is breathtakingly wrong
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Tim Farron: David Cameron can't be blamed for his upbringing, but he can be blamed for his lack of humanity in the face of basic need
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Frances Ryan: We need a minister who backs disabled people and understands how badly the benefit cuts are affecting them
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Nick Cohen: Let's not forget that his blustering and blundering leads to a great deal of human suffering
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Jack Monroe: I'm not single, and I didn't quit my job for a life on benefits, but why let facts get in the way of your Daily Mail column?
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Editorial: Mr Duncan Smith's universal credit has been blessed, to an exceptional degree, with the benefit of the doubt – until now
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Mary Dejevsky: The supreme court judgement leaves the impression that no obligations are attached to the receipt of benefits
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Benefits 18min ago
Sanctions against benefits claimants soar
6 Nov 2013: Number of claims subject to sanctions was 860,000 in year to June, compared with 500,000 in last year under Labour -
Economics blog 1hr 40min ago
As benefit rules get tougher, the claimant count further loses its credibility
6 Nov 2013: In recent months there has been a significant tightening of welfare rules, leading to more people being sanctioned and losing their benefits -
Benefits 8hr 39min ago
Benefit sanctions soar under tougher regime
6 Nov 2013: 600,000 jobseeker's allowance claimants have had benefits docked since new rules took effect in June, government reveals -
Disability 10hr 1min ago
Five disabled people win independent living fund appeal
6 Nov 2013: Court of appeal judges say government breached equality duty by failing to properly assess impact of abolishing fund -
Benefits 1 day ago
Single mothers lose benefits cap legal battle
5 Nov 2013:Judges reject challenge brought by three mothers that policy introduced by Iain Duncan Smith is 'cruel and arbitrary'
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Comment is free 1 day ago
Steve Bell's If ... Iain Duncan Smith wields his axe
5 Nov 2013:Steve Bell's If ...
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Comment is free 2 days ago
Steve Bell's If … Iain Duncan Smith's work scheme is condemned – cartoon
4 Nov 2013:Steve Bell's If …
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Benefits 5 days ago
Benefit caps and housing shortage push families from London
1 Nov 2013: Figures show 129% rise in number of families housed by London boroughs outside capital, more than double the same period last year -
Welfare 6 days ago
Universal credit: £120m could be written off to rescue welfare reform
31 Oct 2013: Labour says ministers in disarray as leaked documents reveal two options for saving project to merge benefits and tax credits -
UK supreme court 7 days ago
Take my advice: adopt a degree of scepticism towards media reports
30 Oct 2013:Joshua Rozenberg: The DWP's statement after losing the back-to-work appeal shows how easy it is to report court rulings to suit an agenda
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Comment is free 7 days ago
The Poundland ruling leaves the forced labour of workfare unchallenged
30 Oct 2013: Richard Seymour: Under capitalism, employers like to impose their own 'culture of dependency' on workers. The court ruling shies away from the truth about workfare -
Poundland 7 days ago
Poundland case: government defeated again over back-to-work schemes
30 Oct 2013: Iain Duncan Smith's appeal to supreme court fails as justices rule work programmes were legally flawed -
News blog 7 days ago
Poundland case: a story we couldn't have told without our readers
30 Oct 2013:Two years ago Cait Reilly contacted the Guardian to tell her story. Today she was vindicated in the highest court in the land
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Poundland 7 days ago
Poundland case: back-to-work schemes not slave labour, says minister - video
30 Oct 2013:Employment minister Esther McVay speaks after the supreme court rules 'back-to-work' schemes were legally flawed
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Iain Duncan Smith defends universal credit - video
The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, defends the universal credit system after a damning report by the National Audit Office
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