First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, walks with Finance Secretary Shona Robison as she arrives to announce the draft Budget for 2025-26 to MSPs at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Picture date: Wednesday December 4, 2024.


Scotland's Finance Secretary Shona Robison promised to lift 15,000 children out of poverty as she made her Budget announcement. 

Scottish government vows to ditch two-child benefit cap 

Liz Kendall said claimants have a "responsibility" to engage with skills or employment programmes and will face sanctions if they decline to do.

Young people to lose benefits if they refuse work or training, minster says

Analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation given exclusively to ITV News shows renters will pay hundreds of pounds extra with local housing allowance frozen.

20,000 renters will be 'pulled into poverty' over housing allowance freeze

Some campaigners have called for both that policy and the benefit cap to be scrapped to help lift children out of poverty.

Axing two-child limit ‘most cost-effective move but no silver bullet on poverty’

Financial help for those with a long-term illness can only be claimed in Jersey if islanders developed their condition or were born after 30 September 2004.

Residents blocked from long-term illness payments due to year of birth

Rebecca Long-Bailey is one of seven MPs who had the whip removed by Keir Starmer for voting against the government.

'I spoke for my constituents who have no voice': Party-suspended MP speaks out

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer suspended seven left-wing MPs who went against the party by voting for the policy to be scrapped.

MP among seven who rebelled over two-child benefit cap says 'I'm glad I did it'

ITV News understands that some MPs are discussing how to force a vote or debate on the issue ahead of the King’s Speech.

The thorn in Labour's side: Will Starmer scrap the two-child benefit cap?

HMRC apologised for the glitch and said they were urgently seeking to resolve the issue.

Half a million people miss out on child benefit payment after glitch

Between 2021-24 there were over 6,500 carers allowance overpayment breaches referred to the Department for Communities debt management.

Unpaid carers facing multi-million pound bill

Ministers will set out plans to reform personal independence payments (PIP) through changes to eligibility criteria and assessments. 

People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says minister

New research for ITV Tonight shows an estimated £89 billion in lost funds.

Britain's missing billions: Could you be owed lost pension and benefit payments?

Both state pension and benefits are increasing but there are concerns some pensioners could be forced into paying more tax.

State pension and benefits rise: How could the changes affect you?

The policy restricts child tax and universal credits to parents for their first two children only.

End ‘unnecessary suffering’ caused by two-child benefit cap, SNP says

The government claims that hundreds of thousands of families will benefit from child benefit changes disclosed by Jeremy Hunt in his Spring Budget.

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