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Resolution Foundation says unpaid carers on low incomes pay ‘very heavy price’ for looking after loved onesThe carer’s allowance benefit should be overhauled and the basic rate of payment increased to lift more unpaid carers and disabled people out of …
Dataset containing details of thousands of Afghans who applied for relocation to UK released ‘in error’ in 2022. This live blog is closedAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghan Response Route?Helen Miller is taking over as directo…
Tory party leader used speech to criticise size of welfare state and call for restrictions on disability benefitsUK politics live – latest updatesThe leader of the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, has said she does not believe one in four people are disab…
Starmer says in exchange for every migrant returned, another migrant will be allowed to enter the UK legally. This live blog is closedSky News is now broadcasting remarks from Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron at their summit in Downing Street.Starmer s…
Starmer and Macron are due to attend a more formal summit tomorrowThe BMA strike decision must be a tempting topic for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs, which is starting very soon. The Conservatives have repeatedly criticised the government for the way they swif…
Exclusive: Charities say changes fail to account for conditions that are progressive or have varying symptoms“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by the planned universal credit cuts, contrary to government claims that they will be pr…
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit capChildren in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has …
Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030The changes the government made to the welfare bill in the face of a mounting rebellion over its proposals to cut disability b…
Bridget Phillipson stresses that changes to welfare bill after threatened rebellion by backbench MPs have come at a costDowning Street’s U-turn on changes to welfare last week will make it harder to implement other policies such as potentially scrappin…
Rose Jones was told to repay £2,145 after she unwittingly breached ‘draconian’ carer’s allowance regulationsA young carer who had looked after her disabled mother since she was eight said she was “amazed” and “overwhelmed” after Guardian readers paid o…