Welfare

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  London housing crisis: nastiness, stupidity and the benefits cap

  4 Oct 2013:

  The capital's boroughs claim they will have to meet a huge financial cost imposed by the impact of the benefits cap on homeless people

• Democracy? Not if you're under 25

  3 Oct 2013: Letters: David Cameron's pronouncement to stop housing benefit for under-25s unless they 'earn or learn' appears to be aimed at some parallel universe

• Nick Clegg: Lib Dems agree unemployed should work for benefits

  3 Oct 2013: Party leader supports workfare among people unemployed for two years and says youngsters should be 'active or learning'

• Welfare quarantining on agenda despite evidence of ineffectiveness

  3 Oct 2013: Government opens door to process used in Northern Territory after study found it did little to change behaviour

• Conservatives to withdraw key benefits from unemployed under-25s

  2 Oct 2013: David Cameron says youngsters who are not 'earning or learning' could lose housing benefit and jobseekers allowance

• Cameron's lie of the land: Greek cliffs scaled, roots of despair buried

  2 Oct 2013: Manchester speech of PM took a 'steady-as she-goes' path of aspiration, blinkered to the woes of Poundland Britain

• Cameron promises 'land of opportunity' where young people must earn or learn

  2 Oct 2013:

  In keynote speech to Tory conference PM says under-25s will lose right to housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance

• Are the poor getting poorer?

  2 Oct 2013:

  Are the poor better or worse off than they used to be? It's a divisive question for the public and an even clearer fault line for British politicians. We take a look at three sets of numbers to find out

• Tough love and the reality of life on the dole

  1 Oct 2013: Letters: The unemployed are there because they are superfluous to the requirements of employers

• Bedroom tax breached human rights of disabled woman, judge rules

  1 Oct 2013:

  Ruling in case of woman with MS who was penalised for not sharing room with husband could pave way for similar appeals

• Let them eat rye loaf with raisins

  1 Oct 2013: Steve Hilton, Google glasses, Austrian spas and welfare reforms, but what about the bloating, everyone?

• Benefit reforms will end 'something-for-nothing culture', says Duncan Smith

  1 Oct 2013: Minister unveils plan to make some unemployed people spend 35 hours a week looking for work under supervision

• George Osborne signals spending cuts for next seven years

  1 Oct 2013:

  Chancellor signals fresh cuts to welfare to deliver budget surplus by 2020

• Who will vote for George Osborne's even nastier economic medicine now?

  1 Oct 2013:

  Polly Toynbee: Forever dogged by his tax cut for the rich, the chancellor struggles to be believed when he says the country will recover together

• Heat or eat? Or take out a loan, do both, and hope for the best?

  1 Oct 2013: 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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