UK Austerity Nation

A woman in her late 40s from East Dorset can expect to receive £67,000 more in state pension when she retires, compared to a women of th...

Reblogged from enoughisenoughdwp : Nothing left to do but die It has taken 3 days to type this, I can't concentrate for long an...

The Great Crapsby. Artwork by Dan Murrell for the New Statesman Like Fitzgerald’s doomed, self-fictionalising hero Jay Gatsby, the Wo...

The government has announced the name of the man who will continue the crucial task of reviewing its “fitness for work” test. Dr Paul Litc...

We were told that more Work Programme performance data would be published this month.  I would be very surprised if that happens.  It would ...

Fuck Off Smiffy. Okay, lets talk common sense. Ian Smith – because that’s who the cunt really is - couldn’t cut it as the Tory party ...

Salvation Army International and UK HQs were paid a surprise visit to launch the week of action. [Photo: Sinister Pics] Join the onl...

A little noticed piece of DWP research shows that four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years off u...

There were shocking scenes at the South London offices of workfare exploiters the Salvation Army today as employees of the charity manh...

This is the first in occasional series on welfare myths - those persuasive facts that everybody knows to be true, but which, on closer exami...

Lawyers expect courts to be inundated with ‘thousands’ of legal cases following the introduction of the government’s ‘bedroom tax’ next mon...

Around 70 people gathered at a well attended protest outside the Royal Court of Justice today to demand a halt to the close of the Inde...

A FOI Request has confirmed Capita will not be offering PIP Claimants the opportunity of having their assessments audio recorded as was p...

  A summary of discussion with Anne McGuire, Shadow Minister for disabled people. The Coalition is not a Government that recognise...

'Genetically modified crops should be sold in Europe, despite consumers' concerns about 'Frankenstein foods’, the Environmen...

As if we didn’t already know that Iain Duncan Smith is a wanker, the bungling Work and Pensions Secretary has resorted to bashing the bish...