The myths around what some call welfare and others call benefits but which were and still are best described as social security are manifold; a
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As the Guardian notes this morning: A new frontier of the battle over the welfare state is being opened up as employment ministers look for ways to
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Politics Home has revealed another Bedroom Tax fiasco: Ministers were accused of a fresh ‘shambles’ over the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ today after it appeared Whitehall departments were
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I reproduce this press release, just published, in full since I share its sentiments: Four major British Churches have described Chancellor George Osborne’s defence of the
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For those seeking to legally challenge the Bedroom Tax and caps on benefits that will force tens of thousands of people to kove in the UK
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  An occasion when a graphic says it all. There are details of protest actions here. For why to oppose, read Polly Toynbee.

This is a TUC press release referring to a new report by my friend and sometimes co-author Howard Reed, out today, so I reproduce it pretty
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This is how the TUC make the numbers stack:   There’s more on this here.

No time to quote extensively at the moment from a blog including the above line from the Bishop of Buckingham. But please go and read it here. The logic is
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