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David Cameron will discuss slashing benefits for young people today as he warns the welfare system is causing deep social divisions.
25 June 2012
An increase in the minimum wage is required to protect low-income workers from a "perfect storm" of benefit cuts, rising living standards and a lack of jobs, Oxfam warns.
14 June 2012
Retail workers could be better off on the dole because of tax credit changes brought in under the last Budget, a new report claimed this week.
11 June 2012
Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans, it has emerged.
15 May 2012
Families with children stand to lose £511 a year on average under tax and benefit changes coming into force from tomorrow, an analysis by a think-tank shows.
5 April 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has partly reversed a planned cut in child benefit, meaning more families will be entitled to help than was originally proposed, though anomalies still exist and confusion still reigns.
22 March 2012
Pensioners were the big losers from today's Budget, with the news 4.4 million will pay more tax from April 2013, at an average loss of £83 each per year. This has been dubbed the new 'Granny Tax'.
21 March 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has partly reversed a planned cut in child benefit, meaning more families will be entitled to help than was originally proposed, though anomalies still exist.
21 March 2012
Benefit recipients could lose a combined £10 billion by 2016, the Chancellor announced in today's Budget.
21 March 2012
Hundreds of thousands of benefits recipients will see a dramatic fall or even an end to their tax credits under a raft of reforms next month.
13 March 2012
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