Benefits

Here's when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025
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Christmas

Here's when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Keir Starmer
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear

What do I do if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?
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Cost of living

What do I do if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?

DWP payment dates in October 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
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Benefits

DWP payment dates in October 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

DWP plans could see more than 50,000 disabled people lose access to vital work support
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Disabled people

DWP plans could see more than 50,000 disabled people lose access to vital work support

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I'm eligible?
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Disability benefits

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I'm eligible?

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit
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Disability benefits

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained
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Universal credit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments
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Disability benefits

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments

Reform UK's plan to ban benefits for migrants is 'an attack on the backbone of this country'
Reform UK

Reform UK's plan to ban benefits for migrants is 'an attack on the backbone of this country'

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts
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Food banks

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts

Universal credit sanctions 'undermine' Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs
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Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit sanctions 'undermine' Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs

'Cruel' housing benefit 'quirk' forces thousands of vulnerable young people to give up work
Housing benefit

'Cruel' housing benefit 'quirk' forces thousands of vulnerable young people to give up work

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP
Composite image of PIP recipient Ron Farrington and secretary of state for work and pensions Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP

Labour's next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Welfare

Labour's next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here's the proof
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Juliette Flach

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here's the proof

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
I've had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement
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Benefits

I've had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement

Homeless people risk losing benefits if they don't move to universal credit, DWP warns
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Universal credit

Homeless people risk losing benefits if they don't move to universal credit, DWP warns

'Getting benefits eased pressure on my family': £9.6bn of universal credit went unclaimed in the last 12 months
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Benefits

'Getting benefits eased pressure on my family': £9.6bn of universal credit went unclaimed in the last 12 months

Five key things you need to know about PIP
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Disability benefits

Five key things you need to know about PIP