Tax Credits

Scotland has vowed to axe the "pernicious" two-child benefit limit in a move that will pile massive pressure on Keir Starmer to act. The Scottish government announced at Wednesday's Budget the controversial policy - blamed for trapping…

Two mothers have been given the green light to challenge the "inhumane" two-child benefit limit "rape clause" at the High Court. The parents, who cannot be identified, had some of their children as a result of rape or coercion by…

Ministers will use “all of the levers that we have at our disposal” to combat child poverty after making a “down payment” on helping hard-up families in the Budget, the Work and Pensions Secretary has said. Liz Kendall said child poverty…

Axing the cruel two-child benefit limit would cut the cost of poverty by over £3billion-a-year by reducing pressures on crumbling public services, new research has found.As Rachel Reeves resists calls to scrap the austerity-era policy at…

When Britain went to the ballot box in July, we knew there was no money and the Tories had left the entire country in a pothole.When Keir Starmer stood on the steps of Downing Street and talked about a national mission of renewal, we…

A Tory-linked think tank has called for the two-child benefit limit to be axed and warned it pushes kids into poverty.In a report likely to pile fresh pressure on Keir Starmer over the austerity-era policy, Onward said it "sends a harmful…

In a move likely to raise a few taxpayer eyebrows, Intel said today that it will cut 15 percent of its workforce, or more than 15,000 jobs, as it struggles to rebound from disappointing results. In March, the US government said it would…

Gordon Brown joined forces with Angela Rayner to make one last plea for your vote - promising the next Labour government would do "even better things" than New Labour did 20 years ago. "The best is yet to be," Mr Brown, Labour's last PM,…

A mum whose disabled son’s advantages have been slashed when he stopped being classed as a toddler stated she is “literally terrified” how she's going to cope. Samantha Tolmie is pleading with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to supply extra help for…

The full rollout of Universal Credit will price not less than £900million extra and take six years longer than beforehand estimated, in keeping with the general public spending watchdog. New figures launched by the National Audit Office at…