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Does universal credit discriminate against single parents?
Speed Read Four female plaintiffs launch legal challenge to government’s flagship welfare programme
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What is universal credit?
In Depth Government’s flagship welfare project aims to simplify benefits system but has been beset by controversy
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Universal credit failings leave thousands in debt
Speed Read ‘Complex’ flagship welfare programme forcing people into rent arrears - and food banks
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Esther McVey ‘misled’ MPs over universal credit
Speed Read Work and Pensions secretary makes partial apology but also disputes some of the watchdog’s findings
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Universal credit ‘may never deliver value for money’
In Depth Damning independent audit of welfare reform finds it is running behind schedule and not delivering on aims
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Finland turns away from universal basic income
Speed Read Government will not expand scheme that gives unconditional monthly payments instead of means-tested benefits
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Government U-turn on axing housing benefit for 18- to 21-year-olds
Speed Read Policy reversal follows outcry from homelessness charities
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Children to ‘go hungry’ after free school meals cuts
Speed Read Tories face backlash for exempting Northern Ireland from reforms which could affect one million children
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Why are 300,000 jobless Britons not claiming benefits?
Speed Read Resolution Foundation report urges Government to do more to help UK’s ‘forgotten unemployed’
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One in five now live in poverty in the UK, report finds
In Depth 400,000 extra children and 300,000 extra pensioners among the poorest compared to 2013
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Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 29 Apr 2013
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