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The claimants had mounted their legal challenge on three grounds - whether the benefits changes were lawful under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Equality Act, and whether the government had followed the correct procedures when telling councils how to curb benefits payments.

Within a few weeks we will have the latest child poverty figures for the period 2013-14, when the coalition's main tax and benefit changes were introduced.

The emergence of childcare as one of Labour's big ideas for the next election follows Labour leader Ed Miliband's claim at the Welsh Labour conference that the government's tax and benefit changes were proving to be another "squeeze on the squeezed middle".

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman denied claims benefit changes were driving up the need.

Chuka Umunna said that six out of ten people affected by the proposed benefit changes were in work.

Plaid Cymru welcomed the report, suggesting the benefit changes were one of the "most toxic policies for decades".

It said the tax and benefit changes were "regressive", and would have a greater impact, relative to income, on people at the lower end of the scale.

Benefit changes are impacting heavily on people.

George Osborne's tax and benefit changes are hitting women hardest.

Media coverage of benefit changes is London-centric: But other areas are not immune.

"The tax and benefit changes are regressive rather than progressive across most of the income distribution.