The Scottish Welfare Fund, which provides support to individuals and families in financial need, has been underspent for a third successive year, prompting fears about how effective Scotland’s...
Tackling poverty, corruption, conflict and problems with basic services in Nigeria is one of the most important development challenges of this century, according to the UK’s International Development...
Disabled people will find it more difficult to get back into work unless ministers re-evaluate welfare-to-work plans, retaining the contribution of the private and third sectors, a think-tank has...
Government departments and local authorities are among the worst offenders when it comes to the unfair treatment of people in problem debt, according to debt charity StepChange.
There is little evidence that the introduction of the National Living Wage in April has hit the employment rate of lower paid workers, according to an analysis by the Resolution Foundation.
Half of Britain’s working households have seen no rise in living standards since the early 2000s, according to a Resolution Foundation report published today.
The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
Pensioners aged over 75 are thousands of pounds a year worse off than both their younger ‘baby boomer’ counterparts and working age adults, according to the charity Independent Age.
Prime minister David Cameron has announced a help-to-save scheme that could see the government top up 3.5 million low-income people’s savings by £1,200.
The government’s Universal Credit reforms will create “huge disincentives” for families receiving the payment to have more than £6,000 in savings, according to an analysis by...
Some councils have ended emergency welfare provision this year following localisation of the support system by the Department for Work and Pensions, the National Audit Office has found.
Two parliamentary select committees have launched a rare joint-inquiry to scrutinise the government’s life chances strategy and the impact of early years intervention.
Public spending on education and economic development is set to fall to the lowest level on record by the end of the decade as spending shifts towards healthcare and provision for pensioners, a...
Work and pensions committee chair Frank Field has written to chancellor George Osborne to urge him to publish a five-year impact assessment of the government’s proposed tax credit changes,...
Chancellor George Osborne has said the Treasury will look at ways of compensating people who are set to lose out through tax credit changes after the House of Lords yesterday voted to stall the...
