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2018
October
Tuesday, 02 October 2018
LA letter
July
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
newsletter 30 July 2018
2015
June
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
BRMA and £23000 analysis
March
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Budget 2015
2014
September
June
Monday, 09 June 2014
Waiting Days Update
January
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Lord Freud takes a pasting in bedroom tax ‘cock-up’ debate
Friday, 03 January 2014
Benefits overpayments being targeted by new campaign
2013
December
Monday, 09 December 2013
Proposed benefit and pension rates 2014 to 2015
November
Friday, 29 November 2013
Iain Duncan Smith spends £75,000 to LEARN Bedroom Tax is hated
Monday, 25 November 2013
Two-thirds of social housing tenants in Salford now behind on rent
Monday, 25 November 2013
Liverpool second worst city in UK for bedroom tax impact
Monday, 25 November 2013
Disaster at DWP: the full interview with DWP’s former employee
October
Monday, 28 October 2013
Universal Credit scheme rolls out (slowly….)
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Bedroom Tax: Freudian blip as Lord says term is misleading then …
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Benefit cap ‘not encouraging work or saving money’
Monday, 21 October 2013
£20m to help bedroom tax victims next year (Scotland)
Monday, 21 October 2013
Cutting the spare room subsidy is getting thousands into work …. hooray?
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Bedroom Tax minister says 3-bed houses should be turned into 1-bed homes ….
Friday, 18 October 2013
Welfare fiasco chief ‘to resign’
Friday, 18 October 2013
Service without a smile
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Housing benefit review is in progress, Clegg confirms
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Tenants not coping with ‘bedroom tax’ says housing group
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Bedroom Tax minister Lord Freud admits ‘not enough one-bedroom homes’ bungle
Thursday, 10 October 2013
More bedroom tax news items …
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
MPs hear from Glasgow City Council on Impact of the Bedroom Tax
Monday, 07 October 2013
Wirral Council’s housing benefit fund could run dry
Monday, 07 October 2013
‘Vegetable taken from bedroom tax tenant’ ?
Monday, 07 October 2013
Bedroom tax: rehoused victims of domestic violence face eviction
Monday, 07 October 2013
573 South Tyneside tenants hand in keys as tax fears grow
Monday, 07 October 2013
Bedroom tax could lead to more evictions, housing chief warns
Thursday, 03 October 2013
More ‘bedroom tax’ appeals upheld (in England and Scotland)
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Conservatives to withdraw key benefits from unemployed under-25s
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Millions ‘will struggle’ with Universal Credit payments
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Baillie takes action – launches ‘Bedroom Tax’ Bill
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Bedroom tax is ‘cruel failure’ six months in, NHF says
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Plaid commits to a “no Bedroom Tax evictions” policy in Wales
September
Monday, 30 September 2013
Housing benefit cap will be ‘kept under review’, says Freud
Friday, 27 September 2013
More than a third have housing benefit reduced under ‘bedroom tax’
Friday, 27 September 2013
Nine charged over A4E fraud
Thursday, 26 September 2013
UN stands by ‘bedroom tax’ protester after Shapps complaint
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Newcastle is ‘worrying hotspot’ says Shelter
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Bedroom tax defeat for Westminster council in landmark case
Monday, 23 September 2013
£100,000 bedroom tax relief for Hartlepool residents
Monday, 23 September 2013
Full details of first bedroom tax tribunal rulings
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Miliband commits to scrapping bedroom tax if Labour win in 2015
Friday, 20 September 2013
59% opposed to ‘bedroom tax’ housing benefit reform
Friday, 20 September 2013
Is the government’s ‘bedroom tax’ pushing people to the brink of eviction?
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Welfare reforms could cost North East region £380m a year
Monday, 16 September 2013
SFHA calls for immediate repeal of the ‘bedroom tax’ at Liberal …
Monday, 16 September 2013
Lib Dem conference: Members back review of housing benefit changes
Monday, 16 September 2013
Social housing unites in Nottingham to oppose bedroom tax-linked evictions
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Universal Credit: ‘Another £200 million lost’
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Universal credit: Timetable not set in stone, says PM
Monday, 09 September 2013
Tenant wins appeal against the bedroom tax
Monday, 09 September 2013
Liverpool housing association will pay Bedroom Tax
Friday, 06 September 2013
Landlord to pay tenants’ bedroom tax while they train …
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Benefit cuts-driven homelessness rise a ‘real and growing scandal’
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Agile dream gets a rude awakening in Universal Credit report
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Universal Credit: the programme suffered from weak management, ineffective control and poor governance (NAO)
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Council’s box room rule to fight Bedroom Tax
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Universal Credit IT programme not fit for purpose, sources warn
Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Crawley man killed himself after losing benefits
Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Universal Credit ‘plagued by problems’, says director
Monday, 02 September 2013
Highland MPs to be lobbied on ‘spare room subsidy’
August
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Hartlepool: The bedroom tax’s impact on one of the UK’s hardest hit towns
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Cambridgeshire councils see rent problems increase after benefit changes
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Fife appeals against ‘bedroom tax’ decisions get underway
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Housing associations hit out at ‘callous’ bedroom tax
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
“DWP chaos to cost £1.4bn”, says Labour’s Liam Byrne
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Mass sleep-out against Bedroom Tax
Monday, 19 August 2013
Benefit reforms were “too risky”, says minister
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Bedroom tax will ‘uproot rural families’ and could cost more than it saves
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Number of housing benefit claimants has soared
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
‘Catastrophic’ reclassification of FE students as HE …
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Benefit cuts could leave homeless out in the cold
Monday, 12 August 2013
Social tenants receive funding for Internet support
Monday, 05 August 2013
Zero leadership, say Universal Credit staff
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Letter from Lord Freud to local authorities
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Tory MP attacks BBC over ‘preconceived agenda’ on welfare
July
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Landlords exit local housing allowance market
Monday, 15 July 2013
Universal credit ‘amber red’ rating vindicated
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Astonishing claim from the millionaire welfare minister (Lord Freud, that is)
June
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Lord Freud outlines protection for new direct rent payments
February
January
Thursday, 31 January 2013
“Rent arrears could rocket!
Thursday, 31 January 2013
No Clear Benefit – report on the end of CTB by the Resolution Foundation
Monday, 21 January 2013
The bedroom tax, ‘a policy that has no logic?’
Saturday, 19 January 2013
“Rent arrears at highest level for a year”
Thursday, 10 January 2013
DWP spells out service charges eligible for benefit
Tuesday, 08 January 2013
Welfare reform: The implications of uncertainty
Tuesday, 08 January 2013
England’s housing crisis is being ignored by politicians
Monday, 07 January 2013
Impact of the Welfare upratings bill
Monday, 07 January 2013
Message to private landlords: give universal credit a chance
Monday, 07 January 2013
Landlords call to criminalise benefit-claiming rent-dodgers
Saturday, 05 January 2013
Soldiers, teachers, cashiers and nurses: faces of the benefit cuts
Wednesday, 02 January 2013
Battle over plan to cap benefits ahead of Commons vote
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Universal credit welfare pilot beset by IT failures
2012
December
Monday, 31 December 2012
Iain Duncan Smith: universally challenged
Sunday, 30 December 2012
UK benefits changes are social engineering, claims Wales’ First Minister
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Direct housing benefit credits ‘could push a million into debt’
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Service personnel could be hit by ‘bedroom tax’
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Benefits Cap delay ….DWP in “chaos”
Saturday, 22 December 2012
UK needs more houses not higher benefits, thinktank says
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Department for Work and Pensions under fire as benefit cap is delayed
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Benefits Cap to be delayed in most areas?
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Universal Credit: 2 million will be better off refusing work
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
Proposed benefit rates for 2013/2014 published
November
Friday, 23 November 2012
Lord Freud says benefits system is dreadful and discourages poor people from taking risks
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Universal credit system risks plunging vulnerable families into debt, warn MPs
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Why 2013 will be a boom year for bailiffs and slum landlords
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Localising Council Tax Support – DCLG/LA Event 21 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Better retirement housing would be more effective than a ‘bedroom tax’
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Benefit reforms could increase homelessness, warns housing group
Monday, 19 November 2012
PayPal Set For Government Universal Credit Contract?
Monday, 19 November 2012
Parliament probes Universal Credit implementation
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Benefits overhaul ‘will not make work pay’, study claims
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
‘Beyond cynical’: ministers, housing benefit cuts, and homelessness
Monday, 12 November 2012
Software issues risk delaying Universal Credit by one year, according to reports
Monday, 12 November 2012
Cutting housing benefit for under-25s ‘is unworkable and irresponsible’
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
News from Parliament October 2012 to 6 November 2012
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Direct payment tenants taken to court
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
How many families are claiming £100,000 per year in housing benefit?
Saturday, 03 November 2012
Council Tax reduction schemes (CTS) calendar of regulations
Thursday, 01 November 2012
House of Lords amendments; Commons Sitting 31.10.2012
October
Monday, 29 October 2012
Lord Freud told to explain ‘unique circumstances’ of direct payments concession
Monday, 22 October 2012
More workers reliant on housing Benefit
Monday, 22 October 2012
Concessions on Northern Ireland welfare reform – hb to be paid to landlords
Friday, 19 October 2012
Pub staff to give benefit advice
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Late changes to Council Tax Support schemes
Tuesday, 09 October 2012
The cuts debate; comment by hbinfo
Monday, 08 October 2012
George Osborne seals deal for £10bn welfare cuts
Wednesday, 03 October 2012
announcement on help with housing costs for those in supported housing
Tuesday, 02 October 2012
Benefits to be paid by vouchers or pre-paid cards?
September
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Lord Freud: Supported housing ‘won’t be roped into Universal Credit’
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Welfare reform: jam tomorrow?
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Freud promises to fund new burdens
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Cyberfraud threatens welfare reform, warns minister
Monday, 17 September 2012
Government to launch ‘official’ single website
Monday, 17 September 2012
House of Commons Work and Pensions Committe
Monday, 17 September 2012
Sink or Swim: The impact of the Universal Credit – report from Social Market Foundation
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Universal credit: Frank Field warns of ‘disaster’
Monday, 10 September 2012
Universal credit: Fortnightly benefits to stay for some
Monday, 10 September 2012
Housing associations talking to DWP over ‘benefit verifier’ role
Sunday, 09 September 2012
Universal Credit update
Thursday, 06 September 2012
Iain Duncan Smith benefits shake–up proving a challenge
August
Friday, 31 August 2012
Universal Credit will discriminate against low earners, warn campaigners
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Council tax support in PM’s local Council
Sunday, 26 August 2012
“cost of living timebomb”
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Social tenants to accept bedroom tax penalty
Friday, 17 August 2012
Rents at “record levels”
Friday, 10 August 2012
Councils stockpile benefits war chest
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Refuges “under threat” from UC
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Lord Freud: ‘We must allow people to run their lives independently’
Monday, 06 August 2012
A universal route out of poverty…
Monday, 06 August 2012
Fears over 38-day wait for Universal Credit
Monday, 06 August 2012
Homes of poorest North East folk to bear brunt of cuts
Friday, 03 August 2012
Fury as city residents used as benefits ‘guinea pigs’
Wednesday, 01 August 2012
Council to sell empty homes for £1 to tenants hit by housing benefit cuts
July
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Local Government Finance Settlement 2014-15 and 2015-16: Technical Consultation
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Homelessness rises by 25%
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Benefit Changes Impractical for Vulnerable Tenants – SFHA
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Scotland: Social housing evictions ‘harder’
Monday, 30 July 2012
Number of tenants in arrears goes up, says research
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Firm established by two Tory donors made millions from work schemes ….
Friday, 27 July 2012
Benefits staff face job losses as welfare reform plans bite
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
“The poll tax is back”
Thursday, 19 July 2012
“Privatisation threat as welfare services handed to Capita”
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Fears benefit reform will lead to surge in bailiffs recovering debts
June
Thursday, 28 June 2012
HMRC writes off £5.2b in uncollected tax
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
New report on costs of housing benefit for older people
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Let them eat cake (bought with vouchers …)
Monday, 25 June 2012
David Cameron axes regional benefits announcement
Monday, 25 June 2012
David Cameron’s 17 ideas …
Sunday, 24 June 2012
HB for under 25’s “to stop”
Thursday, 21 June 2012
And from the horse’s mouth …
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Welfare Reform Could Cost Scottish Families Hundreds of Millions
Monday, 18 June 2012
Parliamentary statement on HB (cap) and UC draft regs (Hansard 14 June 2012)
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
“Poorest hit hardest by CTB cut”
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Pensions deficit for top companies at “£120 billion” – May 2012
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Rents near to “affordability ceiling”
Tuesday, 05 June 2012
Has the penny finally dropped?
May
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Study from the IFS shows that the poorest and the working age will suffer most
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Carrots, sticks, online claims
Monday, 28 May 2012
Protesters target Lord Freud
Thursday, 24 May 2012
New single welfare benefit to be rolled out six months earlier than planned
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Suspiciously looks like India … here we ‘claim’
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Lord Freud speech at a National Housing Federation conference in London.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Alarm over plan to dock benefits of alcoholics and addicts
Friday, 11 May 2012
housing benefit payments direct to claimant trials
January
Monday, 30 January 2012
Welfare Reform Bill – third reading on tuesday 31 January 2012
Saturday, 21 January 2012
HB cap “not a punishment”
Saturday, 14 January 2012
HB restrictions will “break up family”
Friday, 13 January 2012