benefits
Centrelink Has Been Stalking Your Facebook, Australia
Centrelink uncovers fraud by monitoring social media
A Canadian Veteran Won Disability Benefits After Arguing the Food in the Navy Made Him Fat
During his time in the Navy, the veteran said, the food caused him to gain 140 pounds and eventually suffer from high blood pressure and diabetes.
Why Tory Plans to 'Help' Drug Addicts By Taking Away Their Benefits Definitely Won't Work
Making someone destitute is a very strange way to help them recover from drug addiction.
Battle for Benefits, Part 3: "Don't Make Proud Men Beg"
Joe DeLamielleure played in the game's roughest era and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So why is he receiving a poverty-level pension?
Writing to Live: How To Weigh the Benefits of a No-Benefits Teaching Job
Adjunct professors who dream of writing full-time have a funny tradeoff, and with no benefits and limited prospects of becoming a full-time professor, you have to strike a balance between your dreams and financial stability.
A Myth-Busting Guide to Migration to the UK
Is there really a "swarm" of benefit scroungers trying to get into soft-touch Britain?
No More Free Cheese Sticks for Kraft Employees
In the wake of its merger with Heinz, cost-cutting at Kraft has resulted in an end to the boundless cheese sticks and infinite Jell-O that employees once enjoyed.
This Is What It's Really Like to Be a Refugee in Britain Today
We spoke to a Syrian refugee who has wound up in purgatory after his passport was lost by the British government.
The Seven Reasons Why Super-Rich British Tax Dodgers Don't End Up in Jail
Number one: because the prisons aren't big enough.
This Couple Is Crowdfunding to Stay Together Because the UK's Minimum Visa Income Is Too High
Brandon faces deportation and separation from his schizophrenic wife because, like many, he is finding the UK's minimum income for a spousal visa unaffordable.
The Britons with Mental Health Problems Who Have Had Their Benefits Snatched Away
Every day in the UK, 100 people with mental health problems have their benefits sanctioned. I asked a couple of them what that felt like.
The Sad and Shocking Truth About London's Poverty Exiles
A growing underclass are being forced to leave their homes and live in temporary accommodation miles away—their kids flea-bitten, their debts piling up.