Benefits

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UK Government hiring 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefits claimants

New data reveals tens of thousands of Scots have had benefits capped

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Tories plot fresh crackdown on benefit claimants to fund tax cuts

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EXPLAINER Six key points from the Spring Budget as vape duty introduced and NI cut

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'Shamefully insufficient': SNP slam benefits system as Scots can't afford food

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Tories and Labour challenged over two-child cap during independence benefits debate

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Keir Starmer urged to 'listen to Gordon Brown' and scrap two-child benefit cap

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New figures expose suicides recorded at Jobcentres and benefit offices

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Exclusive 'An invasion of privacy': Campaigners attack DWP bank account ‘spying plans’

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Changes to DWP benefits payment dates over Christmas and New Year revealed

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No benefits sanctions in an independent Scotland, ministers say

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Independent Scotland would scrap two-child limit and bedroom tax, says new paper

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Almost 90,000 Scots children hit by 'harmful' two-child benefit cap, new figures show

EXCLUSIVE 'Unprecedented' levels of deprivation caused by UK political choices, report finds

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Calls to increase ‘uniquely Scottish’ benefit for more than 300,000 children

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Labour peer draws 'stark contrast' between key Scottish and English policies

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Letters Tory John Lamont cannot say how many disabled people could be working

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Letters Squeeze on benefits would be at odds with ‘safety net’ assurance

Letters Tories will con idiotic voters by lying about the sick and disabled

UK Government to cut benefits for unemployed who are fit for work

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MSPs call on UK Government to scrap 'abhorrent' two-child benefit cap

Letters NHS underfunding means millions are not well enough to work

Jeremy Hunt considers benefits cuts to provide pre-General Election tax cuts

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DWP to change sickness benefits in bid to push more into workforce

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Labour will 'look at' scrapping rape clause benefit requirement, says Angela Rayner

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'Disgrace': Fury as Keir Starmer says Labour will use rape clause 'more fairly'

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Labour to impose two-child benefit cap 'more fairly' than Tories, Keir Starmer says

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New figures reveal areas of Scotland hit hardest by benefit cap

SNP warn benefit cap has cost poorest Scots more than £70 million

SNP MP schools Jackie Baillie in fiery live TV clash

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LETTERS If Scotland had power to ditch UK policies it already would have

'More blue than red': Scottish caller challenges Keir Starmer live on BBC

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Jackie Baillie left red-faced as key bid to scrap two-child benefit cap fails

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LETTERS Scotland has and should use the power to scrap the two-child cap

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EXCLUSIVE ‘I don’t eat sometimes’: Scottish parents describe impact of two-child benefit cap

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Alex Salmond urges Humza Yousaf to mitigate two-child benefit cap

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Two-child benefit cap hit 80,000 Scottish kids in 12 months, study finds

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SNP challenge Keir Starmer amid Labour 'meltdown' over two-child limit U-turn

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REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: Will Scotland's media treat Labour's divisions like SNP's?

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'Do another U-turn': First Minister weighs in on Labour two-child benefit cap row

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Anas Sarwar makes ridiculous excuse for Labour's two-child benefit cap U-turn

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Size of Scottish poverty reforms 'not appreciated', IFS director says

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UK Government's benefits system could send 1.8 million more into poverty

Letters Scotland is spending huge sums mitigating against Tory welfare cuts

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'Things are better in Scotland', BBC host and financial expert says

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UK Government errors 'contributed to people's deaths', damning report finds

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Letters The Scottish Government must keep demanding full welfare powers

Almost 700,000 Scottish households eligible for £301 payment this spring

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Scots benefit hailed as 'most ambitious child poverty reduction measure in UK'

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Scottish Government to provide extra £8.6m to mitigate UK benefits cap

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Scotland's tax and benefits system more progressive than rest of UK, report finds

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Delay to benefits powers handover as DWP retain control of disability payments

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Exclusive DWP told to learn from Scottish benefits system after 'disturbing' call to MSP

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EXCLUSIVE Anger as Tories make hereditary peer a minister overseeing benefits at DWP

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