10.22am: Welcome to day nine of the welfare reform bill live blog.
Today, we’ll be mulling over last night’s dramatic government defeat on the benefit cap and examining the reaction to it.
We’ll also be looking forward to Wednesday’s Lords debate – including the possibility of another defeat for the government, led by rebel Tory peers – over its proposals to charge single parents for using the Child Support Agency.
Proposals to abolish the social fund – read Polly Toynbee’s excellent piece for a flavour of why the fund, used for emergency loans by families and individuals in crisis, is seen by many as so important – will also be on our agenda.
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11.09am: Could the government be heading for a sixth defeat in the Lords over its welfare reform bill?
The bill includes proposals to charge single parents to use the Child Support Agency (CSA) in order to access payments from their former partners. This
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