Child Poverty Action Group

The government’s response to a Work and Pensions Select Committee report on benefit sanctions1 was issued on 22 October 2015.2 Paul Treloar explores the government’s appetite, or not, for taking up the recommendations made.

• 1. Benefit Sanctions: Beyond the Oakley Review, HC814, 24 March 2015, available at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-sele...
• 2. 3rd Special Report – Benefit Sanctions: Beyond the Oakley Review: Government Response to the Committee‘s Fifth Report of Session 2014–15, HC 557, 22 October 2015, available at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-sele...

The Welfare Reform and Work Bill was laid before parliament and given its first reading on 9 July 2015. The second reading took place on 21 July 2015 and CPAG will continue to lobby for amendments to the Bill as it progresses through parliament. Paul Treloar summarises the main points of the Bill.

Paul Treloar reviews the first of the official independent reviews of personal independence payment (PIP).

Paul Treloar describes an official report on the impact of universal credit (UC).

Paul Treloar, Advice and Rights Manager at CPAG, describes recent research on the impact of benefit cuts.