How does YOUR town rank in Benefits Britain? Almost TWO-THIRDS of households are claiming Universal Credit in some parts of the country - as Labour MPs revolt over plan for cuts

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 11:41 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to unveil fresh curbs on handouts this afternoon despite opposition inside Cabinet and in the wider Labour Party.

Ministers brace to unveil £5bn benefits cuts TODAY despite Labour fury at 'shameful' plans - targeting incapacity and disability handouts with more checks

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 11:41 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is set to lay out moves to save around £5billion amid fears spiralling costs are 'unsustainable'.

Keir Starmer to unveil watered down benefits reforms amid growing backlash from MPs

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 06:57 UTC

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The Prime Minister tonight signed off proposals from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall which are designed to curb the growth in Britain's bloated benefits bill.

Labour backtracks on benefits freeze: Now plans to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill are set to be watered down over fears of major backbench rebellion

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been planning to freeze personal independence payments (PIP) to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill, but the proposals are said to have been ditched.

STEPHEN POLLARD: Starmer must banish corrosive idea that self-responsibility is merely an option

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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STEPHEN POLLARD: It is so important that Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall sticks to her guns when she announces her plans as for many, living on welfare has become not a backstop, but a lifest…

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Welfare is a safety net - not a lifestyle

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and Sir Keir Starmer must stand firm against the naysayers and bleeding hearts. These reforms are not cruel, they are kind.

Welfare claimants to be given 'right to try' work without risk of losing their benefits as part of Labour's overhaul

found 2025 › Mar › 16 (Sun) @ 09:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to announce legislation to introduce a 'right to try guarantee' for those on health-related benefits.

Benefits cuts 'delayed to next week' as Labour MPs revolt over 'rerun of austerity' - despite Keir Starmer warning the system is 'indefensible'

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 12:52 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been widely expected to unveil plans as soon as today, with ministers trying to slash £5billion from 'spiralling' benefits costs.

More than 500,000 benefit claimants who are out of work because they're sick have NEVER had a job

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 06:25 UTC

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More than 500,000 people receiving benefits for health reasons have never had a job as Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has vowed to get more Brits into work

Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci review – dust off those protest banners

found 2025 › Feb › 16 (Sun) @ 10:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A history of the campaigners who in the 1970s were viewed as cranks for demanding pay for domestic work is unintentionally comic at times but, 50 years on, their ideas no longer seem so radical

In the…