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Author:  Madeline [ 12 Jul 13, 16:27 ]
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Universal credit is simple: work more and get paid less
This Tory benefit reform was meant to give people incentives to work – but crunch the figures and you find the opposite is true


Polly Toynbee www.guardian.co.uk

Author:  Madeline [ 15 Jul 13, 20:05 ]
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By Jason Beattie Mirror[


Conservative MPs want teenage mums stripped of benefits and forced to live in hostels or with parents


It also called for the docking of benefits of parents whose child regularly pay truant and questions subsidies for wind and solar power

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Author:  Madeline [ 16 Jul 13, 21:50 ]
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MATTHEW NORMAN www.independent.co.uk

IDS politically motivated? God forbid!
What with him being a politician, it's possible that his motivation in claiming that the housing benefit cap is propelling hordes of the unemployed back to work is political

Author:  Madeline [ 21 Jul 13, 9:17 ]
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John Sentamu, Archbishop Of York, Attacks David Cameron Over 'National Scandal' Of Low Incomes www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Author:  Madeline [ 12 Aug 13, 0:14 ]
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Fall in wages puts Britain in Europe's bottom four
Only workers in Greece, Portugal and the Netherlands have fared worse over the past three years
www.independent.co.uk

Author:  Madeline [ 12 Aug 13, 0:15 ]
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BRUCE ANDERSON www.independent.co.uk

It was always assumed that the poor were hard working. But that has ceased to be true
To revisit Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy is to see what we have lost

Author:  Madeline [ 27 Aug 13, 13:34 ]
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Atos Tests Branded 'Farcical' After Finding Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers Fit For Work
People with crippling illnesses like cystic fibrosis and multiple sclerosis are being found fit for work in tests branded "farcical" by charities.

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Author:  Madeline [ 05 Sep 13, 21:50 ]
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Universal credit frontline: 'I'm left with nothing'
Kiran Singh, part-time lecturer and sole parent of nine-year-old, dreading move to streamlined payments


Shiv Malik www.theguardian.com

Author:  Madeline [ 05 Sep 13, 21:51 ]
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David Cameron's £2.4bn universal credit project riddled with problems
£34m wasted on failed IT programmes and Labour says report proves cover up of issues that put welfare claimants at risk

Rajeev Syal and Shiv Malik www.theguardian.com

Author:  Madeline [ 17 Oct 13, 7:22 ]
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Social mobility report: Work 'may be no route out of poverty'

For millions of families, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government's social mobility tsar is expected to warn.
www.bbc.

Author:  Madeline [ 19 Oct 13, 10:59 ]
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Cancer killed my husband, but Atos took his dignity a long time before his death
Widow Lyn Coupe has vowed to fight in her dead husband's name to overturn the decision to axe his £50-a-week incapacity benefit
Mirror

Author:  Madeline [ 23 Oct 13, 9:06 ]
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Eurobonds scandal: The high street giants avoiding millions in tax
In the third part of our investigation into the biggest corporations in Britain, we turn to the stores that dominate our town centres
www.independent.co.uk

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