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[...] any story that says the bedroom tax will go or be reduced or anything similar.  This disgraceful and scurrilous heap of nonsense [...]

[...] COST MORE The key rationale for the bedroom tax is to free up under occupied social housing properties for those living in overcrowded [...]

[...] factual one and is unappealable and that can be read here So, we have a tenant who has had a bedroom tax deduction wrongly applied since April 2013 and the council, the London Borough of Bexley like [...]

[...] bill is £5.17 billion above the coalition target. E) There are 471,887 households hit with the bedroom tax at an average of £14.92 per week making a total cut of £367 million per year.  The DWP [...]

[...] that brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy.” It was, of course, nonsense. David Cameron rebuked over jobs claim:  Sir Andrew Dilnot, head of the UK Statistics Authority, the [...]

[...] rise in numbers of adults who have suddenly forgotten how to cook and eat porridge since David Cameron took Office, up to last year. The very fact that people suddenly and worryingly forget these [...]

[...] and Liberal Democrat government had taken office. It also calls upon Lord Green and David Cameron to make a full statement about his role at HSBC and his appointment as a minister in 2011. The [...]

[...] . Other parties have their own plans on immigration. UKIP’s are well-known, and David Cameron has tried time and again to find a Conservative-style solution – most of which seemed [...]

[...] told the 12 new JSA claimants there something that intrigued me. He said that people’s housing benefit and council tax benefit would be stopped for two weeks (he used the word disallowed) if [...]

[...] introduced the Welfare Reform Act with many policies collectively aimed at reducing the Housing Benefit bill by “nearly £2 billion per year by 2014/15″. The actual HB bill has increased by £2.1 [...]

[...] , since the May 2010 election the amount of Housing Benefit paid to in-work claimants has increased from £2.6 billion per year to a whopping £5.4 billion [...]

[...] – receives £355.43 in welfare benefit leaving £84.57 as the maximum payable in housing benefit which is unlikely to cover rent in any social housing property across England. Other [...]

[...] -to-work service. There is no longer any doubt that endless Atos assessments, workfare and benefit sanctions are creating a crisis in the lives of those with a mental health condition.  The tragic [...]

[...] of normalising prejudice is the use of the words “incentivise” and “help” in the context of benefit sanctions, which as we know are intentionally extremely punitive, and people have died as a [...]

[...] In spite of long-standing evidence to the contrary, including officials calling benefit sanctions ‘an achievement’ and revelations by the Guardian, the Department of Work and [...]

[...] Tory policies that extend psychological coercion  including through workfare; benefit sanctions; in stigmatising the behaviour and experiences of poor citizens and they endorse [...]

[...] – UK Government still in breach of the human rights convention on gender discrimination. Welfare reforms and the language of flowers: the Tory gender agenda. Thanks to Robert Livingstone for [...]

“David Cameron and George Osborne believe the only way to persuade millionaires to work harder is to give them more money. But they also seem to be [...]

[...] Child UK Government in breach of the human rights convention on gender discrimination. Welfare reforms break UN convention Statement for 2014 of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid [...]

[...]  and the European Union? How about the bedroom tax? The National Health Service? Taxation? The welfare reforms? Equality? These are issues on which the two rival parties will never be able reach a [...]

[...] of a pen? “As poor as this policy is, and as grim as the side-effects are, at least this Coalition Government took steps to try to make sure that all of my tax money goes to that majority of people [...]

[...] the richest people in the UK doubled their income between 2009 and 2014, proving that the Coalition government lied about sharing the burden equally, it seems appropriate to share it. Supporting [...]

[...] from week to week. Zero-hour and unreliable contracts have spread dramatically under the coalition government, with around 1.4 million employers using them. Two out of five people say they do not have [...]

[...] bigger picture, focusing on employment, health, and other social costs.” He added: “The coalition government has embarked upon an unprecedented experiment to reform social security. I hope [...]

[...] , and divert, divide and poison strategy, creates an artificial dichotomy between benefit claimants and taxpayers. Cameron’s diversionary rhetoric has got nothing to do with [...]

[...] to convince you that he has saved the country £50 billion – because the number of benefit claimants is falling. Even this was a lie. The Tory insistence on evidenceless policy means [...]

[...] to get people into part-time, temporary or zero-hours work, and an increased number of benefit claimants being funnelled into work activity programmes that, in fact, reduce the number of [...]

[...] – the Department for Work and Pensions is currently ducking demands to reveal the number of benefit claimants who have died since November 2011 – the DWP says it already has plans to publish the [...]

[...] on when you should declare yourself fit for work and end a claim for sickness or disability benefits.  A single parent who has a partner staying a few nights a week may or may not be breaking [...]

[...] firm Maximus who will soon be carrying out the despised assessments for sickness and disability benefits – received a salary and compensation package worth over a staggering five million [...]

[...] out so-called ‘work capability assessments’ of people claiming sickness, incapacity and disability benefits, according to a plan that intentionally ignores factual medical evidence and places [...]

[...] of welfare payments State pensions    £74.22 housing benefits    £27.20 Disability benefits    £24.80 low income    £17.40 Jobseekers allowance    £4.90 others    £ [...]

[...] who over-enjoys, if I can put it that way, the power that jobcentre advisers have over JSA claimants. We’ve spent a few weeks now talking with JSA claimants outside that jobcentre and a lot of [...]

[...] it attractive for people who have previously been found ineligible for ESA to reapply, and for JSA claimants to try to move across. The proposed benefit cut seems to be aimed at discouraging such [...]

[...] that they would find work within three months, with only 76& agreeing compared to 78% of JSA claimants.  They were also significantly more likely to report that there were not enough jobs in the [...]