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Benefits

Disability and work: Why the next government must show compassion and reform the benefits system
disability benefits protest
Disability benefits

Disability and work: Why the next government must show compassion and reform the benefits system

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know
universal credit/ money
Universal credit

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials
universal credit essentials guarantee/ supermarket
Universal credit

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials

Child benefit: Parents left 'hungry' as HMRC glitch means half a million haven't received payments
childcare
Child benefits

Child benefit: Parents left 'hungry' as HMRC glitch means half a million haven't received payments

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have not solved rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive
food bank/ universal credit
Cass Francis

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to 'automatic DWP deductions'
universal credit/ debtor
Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to 'automatic DWP deductions'

Tories want to paint disabled people as 'benefit cheats'. Is Labour really any better?
Mikey Erhardt

Tories want to paint disabled people as 'benefit cheats'. Is Labour really any better?

Letters: Sunak and his cronies who think benefits are unsustainable should stop lining their pockets
Rishi Sunak
Letters

Letters: Sunak and his cronies who think benefits are unsustainable should stop lining their pockets

My child was awarded disability benefits after five years of fighting. Why don't I feel victorious?
disability benefits/ mother and child
Cathy Reay

My child was awarded disability benefits after five years of fighting. Why don't I feel victorious?

Abuse survivor tried to take her own life after years-long battle with DWP over disability benefits
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Department for Work and Pensions

Abuse survivor tried to take her own life after years-long battle with DWP over disability benefits

DWP under investigation over treatment of ill and disabled people after deaths of benefit claimants
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP under investigation over treatment of ill and disabled people after deaths of benefit claimants

DWP ramps up AI use to 'bring the future to the welfare system' and push people into work
disability benefits
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP ramps up AI use to 'bring the future to the welfare system' and push people into work

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to 'cruel' and 'immoral' two-child benefit cap
archbishop of canterbury
Two-child benefit cap

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to 'cruel' and 'immoral' two-child benefit cap

Letters: I'm terrified Labour will be as unfair as the Tories on disability benefits
Labour leader Keir Starmer
Letters

Letters: I'm terrified Labour will be as unfair as the Tories on disability benefits

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: 'PIP fraud is a non-issue'
dwp pip/ disabled person
Disability benefits

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: 'PIP fraud is a non-issue'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Deaf man awarded £50,000 after 'oppressive' and 'discriminatory' treatment by DWP
dwp jobcentre
Department for Work and Pensions

Deaf man awarded £50,000 after 'oppressive' and 'discriminatory' treatment by DWP

Benefits system is 'utterly failing' as food bank demand reaches record high: 'It's heartbreaking'
a man sorts food donations into crates at a food bank
Food banks

Benefits system is 'utterly failing' as food bank demand reaches record high: 'It's heartbreaking'

'We're at breaking point': Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars
food bank
Food banks

'We're at breaking point': Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars

Benefit reforms 'entirely in the wrong direction' to help disabled people into work, DWP warned
rishi sunak/ disability benefit reforms dwp
Benefits

Benefit reforms 'entirely in the wrong direction' to help disabled people into work, DWP warned

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