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Liberal leader to deliver speech arguing against ‘permanent dependency on government’ and pledging to means-test welfare paymentsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSussan Ley has signalled the Coalition plans to ramp up means-te…
Liberal leader to deliver speech arguing against ‘permanent dependency on government’ and pledging to means-test welfare paymentsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSussan Ley has signalled the Coalition plans to ramp up means-te…
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 …
Labor attorney general says settling appeal right thing to do after Coalition’s ‘disastrous’ automated Centrelink debt recovery schemeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe f…
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…
Home Office data shows 474 migrants arrived yesterday in eight small boats bringing the total to over 50,000Rachel Reeves has been taking questions from journalists in Belfast. She says Northern Ireland is “absolutely crucial” for the UK’s growth prosp…
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…
Ombudsman says staff at DEWR were wrong to rely on an automated system to stop money for claimantsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe legality of the system designed to penalise jobseekers has been thrown into doubt after the…
Changes to welfare reforms not enough to protect newly sick and disabled people from financial hardshipAbout 50,000 people who become disabled or chronically ill will be pushed into poverty by the end of the decade because of cuts to incapacity benefit…