Blog posts tagged "benefits"

February 24, 2012 1:28 pm 33 Comments

"Much like the French Foreign Legion, the scheme is "entirely voluntary" to enter, but there may be an element of compulsion later on if you decide to leave."

January 17, 2012 6:24 pm 15 Comments

"At time of writing, it remains unclear how the government attempts to make the two key numbers match up."

September 30, 2011 5:19 pm 18 Comments

"So if benefit "tourism" is still out even if the European Commission gets its way, long-term sponging won't an option thanks to the government's own crackdown, and there are other more attractive destinations closer to home, it's difficult to see why floods of work-shy immigrants will be queuing up to make Britain their home."

August 26, 2011 4:48 pm 5 Comments

"There's currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don't feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they won't have to do it."

February 2, 2011 1:47 pm 11 Comments

"It is also important we end the sensationalist myths about the local housing allowance reforms in 2011…In London around 750,000 private rental homes will still be affordable." Lord Freud, minister for welfare reform, South London Press, January 11, 2011.

November 25, 2010 7:06 pm 17 Comments

The claim “We’re going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it’s jolly expensive, but for those on benefit there is every incentive.” Lord Flight, interviewed by the Evening Standard, 25th November 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out Howard Flight first said his remarks had been taken out of [...]

November 24, 2010 5:36 pm 3 Comments

FactCheck analyses David Cameron's claim that Labour supports the government's plan to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in state-funded care homes.

November 11, 2010 6:19 pm 6 Comments

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says there will be "no losers" as a result of changing to a Universal Credit when he presented his White Paper to the Commons today. Is he right?

October 27, 2010 6:03 pm 29 Comments

The claim “If you are prepared to pay, as we are, £20,000 in housing benefit, there is no reason why anyone should be left without a home.” David Cameron, Prime Minister’s Questions, 27 October 2010 The background For years, headlines about housing benefit claimants have conjured up images of scroungers living in mansions that we [...]

October 21, 2010 5:16 pm No Comments

FactCheck analyses Chancellor George Osborne's claim that measures in the spending review will not increase child poverty