More than 3 million families to be hit by welfare cuts by 2030, government analysis shows

£65 MILLION in cost of living payments have NOT been claimed - and Labour wants to make DWP cuts???

Households across England are being urged to hurry and claim vital cost of living payments before the looming deadline at the end of March. Recent data obtained from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that a staggering amount of money from the government’s Household Support Fund remains unclaimed, leaving many households in dire need without the support they qualify for. As high costs persist, the Labour Party government extende…

The History of the Welfare State is the History of the State’s Savage War of Aggrandizement and Seizure of Authority Against Civil Society

The history of the welfare state is the history of the state’s savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society. Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the “voluntary sector” of civil society and those intermediary institutions that protected the individual from the direct contact and control by the state […

Labour's 'War On Welfare'

Has Labour declared war on welfare?The party was traditionally seen as a friend of the dispossessed, the downtrodden and the disabled, but Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to reduce the benefits bill by almost £5 billion pounds through changes revealed in her spring statement, as well as previously announced adjustments to eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment.Official forecasts suggest that, as a result, more than 3 million famil…

Families £500 worse off; 250,000 more in poverty; 800,000 see PIP cut

An independent analysis has estimated the impact of Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement as 3million on incapacity benefits hit

LEADERS. More and more checks will not be enough. A pause is needed for new entrants, until there are real opportunities to stop the system-threatening plundering of the welfare sector.

Cuts have ‘huge implications for hardship’ says charity

The government’s own assessment of the Chancellor’s spring statement says that welfare cuts will leave an estimated 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, in relative poverty by the end of the decade. Rachel Reeves claimed the “broken” welfare system must change and help more people into work. Katie Schmuecker is from anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.