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Welfare

July 2024

  • A football lying on the ground in a playground, with children playing in the background, out of focus

    Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

  • Guardian Zadie Smith cover illo Ben Tallon

    ‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories

June 2024

  • Frances Ryan

    Hunger, debt and anguish: all are there at a Midlands baby bank after 14 years of Tory rule

    Frances Ryan
  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak take part in the BBC’s debate.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak and Starmer clash over tax, borders and Brexit deal in final head-to-head before polling day – as it happened

  • Aerial view directly above above rows of back-to-back terrace houses

    DWP algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer ‘not immune’ to argument for scrapping two-child benefit cap

  • Starmer faces further calls for Labour to axe two-child benefit cap

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak refuses to say if aide who bet on election date knew about timing – as it happened

  • Tory welfare reform cost working-age families thousands while pensioners benefited – report

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Anas Sarwar says election is about ‘getting rid of Tories’, not Scottish independence – as it happened

  • The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Britain became a food bank nation

  • Tories pledge to double tax threshold for child benefits to £120,000

  • HMRC apologises for delayed payment of child benefit to about 500,000 people

May 2024

  • doctor checking pulse of patient

    I did ‘fit for work’ tests for the DWP. Here’s what I found

  • A mother playing with her daughter at a public playground at Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

    Euro visions
    The Denmark secret: how it became the world’s most trusting country – and why that matters

  • Victims and campaigners outside Central Hall in Westminster on Wednesday.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Infected blood victims to get interim payments of £210,000 within 90 days – as it happened

  • A composite showing the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, left, and the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, right

    Wes Streeting praises archbishop over call for Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap

  • The two-child benefit cap in the UK is unfair and doesn’t work

    Bishop of Leicester

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system

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