10 December 2008

Welfare 'reform' - fight these attacks

Editorial: The 'reforms' to welfare benefits announced in the Queen's Speech last week are an attack on some of the poorest people and families...

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3 December 2008

In brief

Welfare to profit: Attacks on benefits paid to lone parents and disabled people will feature in the Queen's speech to parliament this week...

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5 November 2008

Labour bashes lone parents

Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo by Paul Mattsson

FROM 24 November lone parents claiming benefits for the first time, whose youngest or only child is 12 or over will no longer be able to claim income support, writes Eleanor Donne.

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16 July 2008

Government attacks single parents

The socialist comment: The government's new welfare legislation is demanding that, by the year 2010, single parents who are claiming benefits will have to return to the workplace once their youngest child reaches seven years of age, writes Jane Harris, Winchester Socialist Party.

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29 January 2008

New Labour attacking our vital benefits

Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz, www.squashdonkey.co.uk

Gordon Brown's government is weaker than ever before. The smog of sleaze that pervaded Blair's government has now settled over Brown's with the resignation...

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