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By Alex Sampson HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) confirmed this week that, after thousands of families were unjustly stripped of their child benefit, its controversial benefit fraud detection system has been fixed. The system, which was supposed to stop child benefit to people who left the country and did not return within eight weeks, was found to be deeply flawed. ...

Starmer’s Labour government is preparing its attacks on disability benefits. Hundreds of thousands of disabled people who currently receive Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have it taken away entirely, and over a million people will lose some benefits. For weeks, disability rights campaigners have been protesting, writing to newspapers, and pleading with MPs to stop the Welfare Reform Bill. Work ...

By a Swansea Socialist Party and Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) member A month ago, DPAC Swansea was one seriously impressive and determined organiser. Then Labour’s disability cuts green paper dropped. DPAC Swansea became two, and through our efforts, a few days later 15 came to a protest planning meeting. A few days later again, 100 people, most of ...

We need spending on welfare not warfare Make the super-rich pay not disabled people Since taking office, Keir Starmer’s Labour government have kept the Tory two-child benefit cap and reduced eligibility for the winter fuel allowance. WASPI women were denied pension compensation. Starmer says he wants to “redesign the state”, this means massive cuts to public spending with the worst ...

By Chloe Leslie The ‘two-child limit’ policy prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or Universal Credit for any third, or subsequent, child born after it was introduced by the Tories in April 2017. This vital support could be worth up to £3,235 per child per year, according to the Department for Work and Pensions. 1.5 million children – one ...

The austerity measures implemented since 2010 have disproportionately affected women. Specialist services for victims and survivors of sexual and domestic violence have been decimated, cutting off lifelines for many. Now, as a supposed protection against their vicious benefit cuts, the Tories have implemented a ‘rape clause’. This is an exception allowing benefits to be claimed for more than two children ...

The requirement for victims to complete an eight-page form in order to qualify for the so-called “rape clause” exemption from child benefit cuts has led to a national outcry. The Tory government’s new restrictions on child benefits were already an attack on working class women and families. This new policy puts civil servants in the position of having to explain ...