Welfare

The Royal Commission into the Liberals’ Robodebt scheme has exposed the scale of lies and cover up that went into defending an illegal policy designed to punish the poor.

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It’s timely that Who Cares? has landed in our bookshops just as public hearings by the Robodebt Royal Commission wind up this month.

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The Labour leader is missing a once in a generation chance to set out much-needed radical reforms for a broken nation, argues his former advisor Simon Fletcher

The money could be 'much better spent providing the support that disabled people need to take part more fully in society' – Chaminda Jayanetti reports

The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to publish its own research into the effectiveness of sanctions, reports Chaminda Jayanetti

New data has revealed the barriers single parents face in getting back to work, while rates of in-work poverty exposes Tory 'myth' that work is the route to riches, Sian Norris reports

New ONS data reveals how cold homes and food insecurity is impacting people's physical and emotional health

New data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals the extent of poverty in families