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The government's benefits cap is failing in all its professed aims and further marginalising the poor, according to a damning report by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) yesterday.
The cap - rolled out in July - limits benefits to £500 a week for families with children or £350 a week for those without.
The institute's study examined the results of the cap in Haringey, one of four London boroughs chosen as pilot areas.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
