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Welfare reform bill: child maintenance and social fund – live discussion
After last night’s defeat in the Lords on the benefit cap, the government faces fresh opposition over its plans for child maintenance, and the social fund 11.09am: Could the government be heading for a sixth defeat in the Lords over its welfare reform bill? The bill includes proposals to charge single parents to use the Child Support Agency (CSA) in order to access payments from their former partners – and this will be opposed by a group of Conservative peers, led by Lord Mackay of Clashfern , who was Mrs Thatcher’s Lord Chancellor in the late 1980′s.
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Welfare reform bill: child maintenance and social fund – live discussion
Welfare reform: household benefit cap Q&A
Ministers say a £26,000 cap on the amount of benefits families can receive will cut the deficit and incentivise people to find work What is the household benefit cap? The government is proposing to introduce a £26,000 cap on the total amount of benefits that working-age people in the UK can receive (including job seeker’s allowance, housing benefit, child benefit and carer’s allowance), limiting it to £500 a week for families, or £350 for childless single adult households
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Welfare reform: household benefit cap Q&A
Benefit cap impact assessment: get the key data
The DWP has published its impact assessment of the effects of the benefit changes today. What does the data say? • Get the data Government proposals to cut benefits are wending their controversial way through parliament, but what is the data behind this story?
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Benefit cap impact assessment: get the key data
Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate – live discussion
The government is under pressure over proposals critics say will plunge tens of thousands of children into poverty 11.51am: One of the prime movers behind the astonishingly successful #spartacusreport campaign against disability benefit cuts, Kaliya Franklin , is in London today, speaking at a TUC conference on work and disability. Kaliya – aka @BendyGirl – writes on her blog: After three months I’m finally leaving the flat to go somewhere other than my GP’s or physio….so a trip to London could be a tad ambitious even with a PA
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‘Welfare reform has us terrified’ – families facing the worst speak out
As the Lords prepares for another debate, p eople facing impending disability cuts wonder how they will cope Some people’s lives are almost unimaginably hard, stricken by bad luck. The welfare state is there to mitigate misfortune, or it was
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‘Welfare reform has us terrified’ – families facing the worst speak out
Welfare reform bill – cuts to disability benefits
The House of Lords prepares to debate controversial reforms to disability living allowance 10.55am: Welcome to day four of the Guardian’s welfare reform bill live blog .
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Welfare reform bill – cuts to disability benefits
