Welfare / Benefits Myths & Facts
- Full Fact - The Welfare Budget 163839
- Exposing benefit ‘myths’ - PSE 163841
- Myth-busting: the real figures on benefit fraud (CAS) 163843
- Mythbuster: Tall tales about welfare reform (Red Pepper) 163844
- Crisis Mythbusting Leaflet 163845
- Video: How Welfare DOES NOT Work The Way You Think It Does 163846
- Book: Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us (John Hill 2014) 163847
- Full Fact - Articles on Benefits 163848
- Full Fact - Articles on Welfare 163849
- The government’s claims of not being able to lift retirees out of poverty are not credible - Left Foot Forward 15.10.21 258139
- Judge me fairly': man who starved to death's plea to welfare officials - The Guardian 27.02.20 200536
- Universal Credit can be fixed - Citizens Advice 14.07.17 163850
- Why we broke our own publishing rules with the new Universal Credit advice - Citizens Advice 18.05.17 163851
- Video: Homeless and hungry: How benefit sanctions hit the poorest - BBC Newsnight 05.01.17 163852
- Theresa May faces Tory backlash over planned cuts to in-work benefits – Guardian 21.10.16 163853
- More freeloaders than free market. How Britain bails out the business chiefs - Guardian 6/16 163854
- Economists tested 7 welfare programs to see if they made people lazy. They didn't. - Vox 11/15 163855
- Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate - Guardian 7/15 163856
- Here’s 6 Common Welfare Myths We All Need to Stop Believing - US Uncut 11/15 163857
- Benefits: It’s not true that half get more than they pay - Full Fact 6/15 163858
- It's time to bust some myths about benefit fraud and tax evasion - Independent 6/14 163860
- Do immigrants pay more in taxes than they claim in benefits and services? - Full Fact 11/13 163861
- Welfare Myth Three - The Poor Don't Pay Taxes - Huffington Post 11/13 163862
- Benefits in Britain: separating the facts from the fiction - Guardian 6/13 163863
- Would a household have to earn £41,000 to match a family on benefits? - Full Fact 4/13 163864
- UK Benefits: Debunking Welfare Myths - IBT 4/13 163865
- Are a million people fit to work yet living on benefits? - FullFact 4/13 163866
- The myth of the "welfare scrounger" - New Statesman 3/13 163867
- Welfare Myth Two - Benefit Fraud is a Big Problem - Huff Post 3/13 163868
- Is benefit fraud at a “record high”? - Full Fact 1/13 163869
- Voters 'brainwashed by Tory welfare myths', shows new poll - Independent 1/13 163870
- Strivers vs Shirkers? Ten Things They Don't Tell You About the Welfare Budget - Huff Post 12/12 163871
- ‘Inconvenient truth’? Has the UK’s welfare bill grown sevenfold over the past half century? - Full Fact 9/12 163872
- Are the benefit cap savings dwarfed by the sums paid to the wealthy? - Full Fact 1/12 163873
- How much does housing benefit abuse cost UK taxpayers? - Full Fact 1/12 163874
- A million ‘scroungers’ on benefits for a decade? - Full Fact 6/11 163875