Stop headline-chasing on benefit fraud – and concentrate on fixing the system
Friday, August 12th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Benefits, Fairness, Inequality, Unemployment | 1 Comment »This week, David Cameron returned to one of the favoured themes of politicians looking for easy headlines – benefit fraud. With the welfare bill under pressure like no other area of public spending and with benefits already at historically low ...
Women lose out under Universal Credit proposals
Monday, June 13th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Benefits, Equality, Gender, Welfare reform | No Comments »This post first appeared on Left Foot Forward. In legislating to pay benefits in a single, household-level payment, the government risks harming children’s well-being, reducing gender equality, and increasing vulnerability to financial abuse. Universal Credit aims to consolidate a range ...
‘Technically feasible’ and ‘morally right’ – latest from the Robin Hood tax campaign
Thursday, April 28th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty, UKPP news, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Wellbeing | No Comments »It’s been a busy, important and successful couple of months for the Robin Hood Tax campaign. Increasingly widely recognised as an idea ‘whose time has come’ (to quote from a recent article by economist Ha-Joon Chang and researcher Duncan Green), ...
‘Why Social Inequality Persists’
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Wellbeing | No Comments »Speaking at the RSA, leading social commentators Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett discuss the persistence of injustice and the unacknowledged beliefs that propagate it.
Oxfam’s response to the Welfare Reform Bill – second reading
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Benefits, Child poverty, Cuts, UK poverty, Welfare reform | No Comments »With plenty of coverage in today’s media, the second reading of the coalition’s ‘radical plans to reform the benefits system’ is attracting significant negative attention due to warnings from a group of cancer charities that the welfare bill ‘will penalise ...
Oxfam response to the publication of the Welfare Reform Bill
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Benefits, UK poverty, Unemployment, Welfare reform | 1 Comment »Kate Wareing, Oxfam’s UK Poverty Director said: “Today’s Bill, though a step in the right direction, still lacks a lot of detail. The government must make sure the safety net welfare provides is not being pulled from under our feet. Iain ...
