Welfare

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• Lone parents told to be ready to work or face benefit cut

  Dec 2 2008:

  Latest stringent welfare reforms will target parents of children aged one or more

• Urge lone parents into jobs. Just put away the big stick

  Dec 2 2008:

  Polly Toynbee: Getting people employed is vital, but in a recession current welfare-to-work targets are impossible

• Backlash over Brown's plans for jobless grows

  Dec 1 2008:

  Labour's welfare reforms will give private companies a greater role in getting the unemployed back to work

• Get on your bike, again

  Nov 25 2008:

  Jonathan Rutherford: Proposals to make benefits conditional, not universal will exacerbate poverty as the recession bites

• Pre-budget report: How it affects the over-60s

  Nov 25 2008:

  One-off Christmas bonus and small rise in pensions, but no extra cash for winter fuel

• At last, the party of social justice has woken up

  Nov 25 2008:

  Polly Toynbee: The pre-budget report confirmed Labour's escape from the grip of the rich - and a Tory reversion to type

• The benefits of welfare reform outweigh the risks

  Nov 23 2008:

  Editorial: Rising unemployment makes the case for systemic change stronger, as long as the reforms are seen to be fair

• The poor won't benefit from reforms of the welfare system

  Nov 22 2008:

  Letters: Jenni Russell (We must dare to rethink the welfare that benefits no one, November 21) confuses a number of arguments

• Welfare reforms could increase poverty, says government adviser

  Nov 21 2008:

  Sir Richard Tilt calls for changes to the benefit system to be delayed amid economic downturn

• We must dare to rethink the welfare that benefits no one

  Nov 21 2008:

  Jenni Russell: The left has long been blind to the dependency culture that deters adults from flexible work and damages their chlidren

• Rural south hit hardest by unemployment rise

  Nov 20 2008:

  As the economy enters recession, the impact upon the jobs market is starting to be felt across the UK, particularly in the south of England

• A bureaucratic kicking won't help lone parents into work

  Nov 20 2008:

  Libby Brooks: The new child benefit rules make a mockery of Labour's rhetoric on choice and hurt those who most need support

• Record backlog in unprocessed benefit claims blamed on cuts

  Nov 20 2008:

  Government urged to end its closure of Jobcentres after unemployment benefits hit four-year high

• Now is the time to tackle child poverty

  Nov 19 2008:

  Letter: On October 4, 10,000 people marched in London to demand that the government keep its promise to halve child poverty by 2010

• Where tax goes up to 60 per cent, and everybody's happy paying it

  Nov 16 2008:

  Gwladys Fouché discovers that in Sweden high tax rates underpin a successful society

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