Charities have reported a surge in calls and visits to their advice pages following the Government’s planned cuts to welfare.

low-income families are deriving less of their income from employment and more from government welfare programs. For example, in 1979, households living below the poverty line earned 60% of their ...

But in the last year of his presidency, finding the line between “general” welfare and local welfare a hard one to define, Monroe signed a few bills to fund surveys for some local internal ...