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Low-income families could be pushed further into financial difficulties and debt by a shift to monthly benefit payments under Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms, a think tank warned today.

MPs have been warned people from disadvantaged backgrounds may suffer if the Government pushes ahead with plans to digitise the benefits system.

The Government is considering enforcing tougher sanctions for disabled and sickness benefit claimants who refuse to take steps to get back into the workplace.

The Government has today announced plans to make it easier for people to take their work pension with them from job to job.

Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans, it has emerged.

Unemployment is set to continue rising over the next five years in most parts of the UK because of a weaker economic outlook, according to a new report.

There has been a "seismic collapse" of private sector pensions and fresh incentives are needed to boost retirement savings as auto-enrolment nears, a report warned today.

The Government should consider introducing a "graduated" state pension to allow people to draw some cash before they retire, which could help encourage them to continue working for longer, a thinktank recommended today.

The jobs market is facing a "slow, painful contraction", with firms scaling back decisions on whether to recruit more staff against a background of global economic "turmoil", a new report warns today.

The Government today has delayed its planned increase in the state pension age, saying that thousands of women will benefit.