Welfare - Page 37

By Jamie Hailstone | 10 November 2014

A committee of MSPs have called on the Scotland Office minister to keep his promise and meet food...

A glimmer of hope: councils standing up for refugees

By Estelle Worthington | 06 November 2014

Amid the media clamour over immigration, local government has had to pick up the pieces of poor W...

How to prepare for Care Act duties

By Simon Galczynski | 30 October 2014

Simon Galczynski urges social care managers to understand new legal duties under the Care Act and...

NALC 'gob smacked' by £9m council tax support cash grab

By Jonathan Werran | 27 October 2014

The representative body for parish and town councils will this week use its annual general meetin...

LDL moves back to local authority ownership

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 October 2014

Liverpool City Council’s controversial partnership with BT – Liverpool Direct (LDL) – looks set t...

Fraud and errors cost housing benefit £1.4bn

By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014

The viability of the housing system is being put into question through increasing reliance by eve...

If the welfare cap fits, wear it

By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014

Features editor Jonathan Werran on the countdown to chancellor George Osborne's quite wintry Autu...

Bedroom tax hits the North most, ALMOs' research indicates

By Jonathan Werran | 20 October 2014

Residents in the North of England continue to face the greatest impact of the so-called bedroom t...

PAC Hodge: 'Out of sight, out of mind' DWP at fault for record housing benefit overpayments

By Jonathan Werran | 16 October 2014

Housing Benefit overpayments cost the taxpayer nearly £1bn in 2013/14, spending watchdogs have ca...

Council chiefs to work with Whitehall for UC roll-out

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 October 2014

Town hall chiefs have pledged to work with Whitehall on the roll-out of the controversial Univers...

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