Universal Credit could leave millions of families up to £3,000 per year worse off due to welfare cuts, the Resolution Foundation has warned.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s removal of the so-called “spare room subsidy” unlawfully discriminates against a domestic violence victim and family of severely disabled 15-year-old boy.
The coalition government tells a story of “broken Britain”. Welfare spending is out of control. It is unaffordable. It is excessively generous. It undermines incentives because people are better off not working. It promotes long-term dependency. The press coverage, and supportive polls, suggest that many people have found this narrative compelling. However, it isn’t true.
The government’s war on “scroungers” has turned to forcing jobseekers to filling out bogus psychometric tests or risk losing their benefits.
Dan McCormick imagines the brain-storming session where the government decided what to cut at the DWP