Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith was urged to apologise to the unemployed tonight after watchdogs rapped him for abusing statistics. The former Tory leader claimed that the Coalition’s decision to cap benefit payments had driven 8,000 people to get a … Continue reading
A MAN chained himself to the railings of a Jobcentre in a row over benefit payments. David Garbett, of Southwick, said he was left without money after his employment and support allowance, £99 per week, which he received fortnightly, was … Continue reading
Three disabled claimants have launched a legal action to challenge the government’s more stringent tests for mobility allowances that came into force on Monday. The decision to seek a judicial review of the regulations emerged as the work and pensions … Continue reading
He cannot stop himself can he, Iain Duncan Smith continues to spread lies about benefits like farmers spread manure to improve crop growth? In the Mail an article quotes him as saying ‘Seventy per cent of people on it have … Continue reading
Poor old Iain Duncan Smith is getting angry with us peasants for fighting back against the draconian welfare reforms he is so proud to have introduced, he growls that the petition to see if he could live on £53.00 per … Continue reading
WORK and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith was greeted by angry protesters and members of the public on a visit to Bolton. The man in charge of the Government’s welfare reforms was in town yesterday on a fact fiindng secret … Continue reading
The figures shatter the Chancellor’s pledge last month to “support the vulnerable”, which he made while capping their benefits More than three million disabled people will be £156 a year worse off after George Osborne’s shocking “Strivers’ Tax”. Today’s figures … Continue reading
Tory welfare secretary Iain Duncan Smith – the man slashing housing benefit for hard-up families – is living in a £2million Tudor country pile for FREE. Unlike worried Britons facing homelessness because of his savage cuts, the former Tory … Continue reading
The unemployed need to be “working and training, not claiming”, the shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, said, as he outlined Labour‘s plans to protect itself from the politically damaging charge that it is soft on welfare claimants. Labour … Continue reading
The scale of the threat to the coalition’s universal credit scheme (UC) has been revealed by figures showing that the IT system required to match employers and banks’ records is failing 25% of the time. Fears that the centrepiece of … Continue reading