The United Nations plans to visit the UK to investigate whether Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms have caused harmful and systematic abuses of disabled people's human rights, The Independent reports.
Stevenage -
A diabetic ex-soldier died with no food in his stomach and less than £4 ($6) to his name, after officials at the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK axed his benefits.
This Sunday, anti-bigotry campaigners are encouraging people to take part in a unique carnival-protest against the British national newspaper the “Daily Mail.”
Nearly 70 per cent of the British public would be prepared to work for nothing for up to three months if it meant landing their dream job, according to a new survey.
Everyone agrees the benefit system in the UK is a total mess. The man appointed to sort it out thinks he has the answer, but Iain Duncan Smith doesn't even understand what is the real problem.
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A British Conservative cabinet minister has been accused of misleading Parliament by passing off property price-comparison figures that were taken from an Internet website as official government figures.