1st February 2013

Universal Credit and Council Tax Benefit localisation

In an article in The Guardian on the 10th September Frank Field MP raised serious concerns about both the principle and the viability of ‘Universal Credit’ ( – we use Read More

15th January 2013

A step on the road to a Citizen’s Income

The Coalition Government’s announcement that a single-tier state pension will be introduced in 2017 is a step closer to an unconditional Citizen’s Pension. The state second pension will be merged Read More

5th January 2013

A difficult year for claimants and staff

2013 won’t be an easy year for the UK’s benefits system: it won’t be easy for people reliant on benefits, and it won’t be easy for Department for Work and Read More

26th November 2012

Working Poverty in Europe: A Comparative Approach, by Neil Fraser, Rodolfo Gutiérrez and Ramón Peña-Casas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xx + 342 pp, hbk, 0 230 29010 5, £60 This data-packed book is one of a series of publications to emerge from the EU-funded Programme on Read More

26th November 2012

Migration and Welfare in the New Europe: Social protection and the challenges of integration, by Emma Carmel, Alfio Cerami and Theodoros Papadopoulos

Policy Press, 2011, xiv + 261 pp, hbk, 1 847 42644 4, £70 The introductory chapter of this timely edited collection outlines the issues to be discussed throughout: policy combinations, Read More

26th November 2012

Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform, by Matthew C. Murray and Carole Pateman

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xv + 271 pp, hbk, 0 230 28542 2, £57.50 This book is a most useful survey of international experience of Basic or Citizen’s Income, of benefits Read More

26th November 2012

Social Policy, by Hartley Dean

2nd edition, Polity, 2012, xi + 157 pp, pbk, 0 7456 5178 1, £12.99 Hartley Dean’s passion for social policy is rooted in twelve years spent working for an advice Read More

26th October 2012

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice, by Molly Scott Cato

Earthscan, 2010, xvi + 224 pp, pbk, 978-1-84407-571-3. Molly Scott-Cato, economics spokesperson for the Green Party and lecturer at the Cardiff School of Management, has produced an excellent introductory account Read More

26th October 2012

A Minority View: What Beatrice Webb would say now, edited by Barry Knight

Beatrice Webb Memorial Series on Poverty, vol.1, Alliance Publishing Trust, 2011, 128pp, pbk, 1 907376 11 5, available from the Webb Memorial Trust, webb@cranehouse.eu Beatrice Webb’s contribution to a Royal Read More

1st October 2012

Citizen’s Income News, Autumn 2012

The World Bank has published a report, The Cash Dividend: The rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore. The authors conclude: Read More