The Government's Work Programme is failing the most disadvantaged jobseekers, the Work and Pensions Committee has said. The Committee found there was "growing evidence" that the most severely unemployed were being "parked" on the scheme by the contractors who run the scheme.
The bill to house vulnerable homeless families in short-term accommodation has reache...
Only 200 old age pensioners have voluntarily stopped their winter fuel payment in the...
The number of people applying for emergency handouts to meet the costs of their rent ...
Fresh fears have arisen over the Government's universal credit scheme after pilot pro...
Emergency funding to help welfare claimants meet the cost of their rent is running out “all over the country”, Liam Byrne has warned, after the scheme saw a 388...
Vulnerable families have been targeted by Labour-run South Lanarkshire council and threatened out of their homes because they can't pay Westminster's bedroom tax. ...
Nigel Mills said he had seen ATOS assesments that were "clearly wrong" from his own assesments. "Clearly in my constituency casework I have people coming to me re...
Dame Anne Begg said the system of assessing disability benefit claimants was like a “treadmill” people could not escape. “We’re still seeing about 40% of the deci...
Tom Greatrex said disability benefit assessments were “crude” and caused distress, responding to comments by a doctor who worked for assessment contractor Atos....
17/05/2013 on PM, BBC Radio 4
16/05/2013 on BBC News
16/05/2013 on BBC News
