Social Justice

DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say
Benefit fraud

DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say

Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
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Education

Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'
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Pensions

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here's when you will get the higher amount
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Benefits

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here's when you will get the higher amount

Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt
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Benefits

Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt

World's billionaires are worth £11.3 trillion. Here's how their cash could make the world a better place
Wealth

World's billionaires are worth £11.3 trillion. Here's how their cash could make the world a better place

DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'
Benefits

DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'

'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
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Hygiene poverty

'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars

'DWP has learnt nothing': DWP sparks fury by seizing woman's £16k inheritance over Co-op job
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Department for Work and Pensions

'DWP has learnt nothing': DWP sparks fury by seizing woman's £16k inheritance over Co-op job

Parents can now get 15 hours free childcare for two-year-olds. Here's how
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Cost of living crisis

Parents can now get 15 hours free childcare for two-year-olds. Here's how

DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants: 'I fear for the future'
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Benefits

DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants: 'I fear for the future'

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here's why
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Cost of living crisis

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here's why

I started doing crime by age 6. I didn't know any other life – all my birthdays were in prison
Crime

I started doing crime by age 6. I didn't know any other life – all my birthdays were in prison

Will free school meals and vouchers be offered over the Easter holidays?
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Free school meals

Will free school meals and vouchers be offered over the Easter holidays?

Council tax is going up for millions in April. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay
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Cost of living crisis

Council tax is going up for millions in April. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay

Water bills are going up in April 2024. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay
Cost of living crisis

Water bills are going up in April 2024. Here's what to do if you're struggling to pay

Care worker faced homelessness as low pay left her with 'nothing' to fall back on
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Social care

Care worker faced homelessness as low pay left her with 'nothing' to fall back on

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns
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Debt

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns

Kate Garraway's 'huge debts' from husband's care shows reality of a social care system in crisis
Social care

Kate Garraway's 'huge debts' from husband's care shows reality of a social care system in crisis

DWP could be 'fantastic' under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: 'Don't write the DWP off'
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Politics

DWP could be 'fantastic' under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: 'Don't write the DWP off'