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Exclusive: Ministers have vowed to fix benefit after Guardian revealed thousands had been plunged into debt for accidentally breaking rulesThe government is considering compensation payouts for unpaid carers who have been unfairly hit with huge financi…
Exclusive: Poverty Strategy Commission says abolishing cap will tackle hardship and lift families out of ‘deep poverty’A cross-party commission including former welfare ministers is urging the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit as part of …
A BRIT mum who was locked up and “left to rot” in a hellhole Thai prison has reportedly returned to the UK – without her four-year-old son.
Ellis Matthews, 32, a…
Exclusive: Data gathered by Generation Rent shows 37 councils spent £31m in 2024-25 in one-off payments to individual landlordsCouncils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to per…
Increased checks if claimants have moved abroad could save taxpayers £350m over five years, government saysUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have announced a clampdown on people who continue to claim child benefit payments even though they hav…
Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse itLabour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.Rising…
People will be chosen via three-stage process, with government expected to accept around 50 migrants a week when scheme startsRushanara Ali, the homelessness minister, is facing criticism for hiking rent on a property she owns by hundreds of pounds, re…
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s hous…
Justice Collins Rice says it is for politicians and not courts to change rules around two-child benefit cap Two women who conceived their eldest children while they were in violent and controlling relationships have lost a legal challenge to the rules …
UK PM and German chancellor answered media questions after signing first treaty between two countries since second world warWhile Rushanara Ali is answering the urgent question in the Commons, Keir Starmer is speaking at the event where he is announcin…