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Child benefit

  • 7 Dec 2014

    Mapped: food banks on the rise as ‘hunger stalks the UK’

    Working families are being forced to turn to food banks to make ends meet, the Archbishop of Canterbury says ahead of the publication of a government report. But where is your nearest bank?

  • 9 Jun 2014

    Breadline Kids: breaking the cycle of food poverty

    Becky lives in Hull with her mother and sister. The family has just £1.20 per person, per day, to spend on food. She created a manga cartoon to describe the challenges of living in food poverty.

  • 16 Apr 2014

    Food banks: on the front line with Britain’s poorest

    As new Trussell Trust figures show that food banks fed almost 1m people last year, Epsom and Ewell food bank manager Jonathan Lees writes from the front line.

  • 21 Feb 2014

    Bedroom tax ‘unlawful’ appeal rejected by court

    The court of appeal upholds the legality of government cutbacks in the benefits system, as judges reject accusations that the so-called “bedroom tax” unlawfully discriminates against the disabled.

  • 20 Feb 2014

    Heat or eat? Church of England bishops’ hunger plea

    Twenty-seven bishops condemn the government’s “punitive” welfare reforms, which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty.

  • 20 Feb 2014

    The truth about food banks: dependency or welfare crisis?

    Food banks are “consistently” seeing an increase in demand, a Defra-commissioned report concludes – but what are they and are benefits cuts to blame for their proliferation?

  • 25 Oct 2013

    Benefit sanctions causing ‘great hardship’

    Penalising benefit claimants who are not deemed to be doing enough to find work is leaving people without any money to live on, according to research from the Citizens Advice Bureau.

  • 16 Sep 2013

    FactCheck Q&A: Benefit fraud in perspective

    By Patrick Worrall

    The Crown Prosecution Service will push for longer sentences for benefit fraudsters. A long-overdue clampdown or a waste of resources? FactCheck finds out.

  • 9 Jul 2013

    10 things Britons think about Britain that are wrong

    Britons dramatically overestimate the amount of teenage pregnancy, crime and benefit fraud in the UK. A new report by Ipsos Mori checks the perceptions against the truth.

  • 5 Jun 2013
    48 years

    Cuts to child benefit: here to stay?

    Cuts to child benefit look like they’re here to stay, whoever wins the next General Election. Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, has now decided it would be too expensive to reverse the policy.

  • 15 Apr 2013

    FactCheck: the benefit cap row

    By Patrick Worrall

    Iain Duncan Smith has been rapped by the statistics watchdog before. Critics now say he is misrepresenting government figures to defend the controversial cap on benefits. FactCheck investigates.

  • 15 Apr 2013

    Benefits cap begins in London

    A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.

  • 10 Apr 2013

    UK children face ‘bleaker future’, Unicef report says

    Britain is ranked as one of the bottom countries in the developed world for teenage pregnancy, youth unemployment and involvement in further education, in a new report from Unicef.

  • 4 Apr 2013

    Philpott ‘lifestyle’ fires up debate over child benefit cap

    Britons are right to question the benefit “lifestyles” led by people such as Mick Philpott, says Chancellor George Osborne, as the case for a two-child cap on child benefits is raised again.

  • 2 Apr 2013

    Could you live on £53 a week?

    Iain Duncan Smith says he could live on £53 a week – but could he? Channel 4 News looks at the numbers and speaks to one woman who is struggling to cope on this amount of money.

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