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Benefits

What would a fair disability benefits assessment look like? 
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PIP assessments

What would a fair disability benefits assessment look like? 

Exclusive: Disabled people are 'set up to fail' by the DWP in target-driven disability benefits system, whistleblowers reveal
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Disability benefits

Exclusive: Disabled people are 'set up to fail' by the DWP in target-driven disability benefits system, whistleblowers reveal

How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health
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universal basic income

How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health

'Damaging' housing benefits are leaving low-income renters with nowhere to rent in England
DWP local housing allowance housing benefits are not enough for renters in England
RENTING

'Damaging' housing benefits are leaving low-income renters with nowhere to rent in England

From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare
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TV

From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare

'I had to sell all my possessions just to feed myself': More of your stories on DWP PIP rejections
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Letters

'I had to sell all my possessions just to feed myself': More of your stories on DWP PIP rejections

Carers Week: Eldercare is the new childcare, and carers need new rights
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Carers Week

Carers Week: Eldercare is the new childcare, and carers need new rights

The DWP's record on disability benefits is a disgrace. We're here to shine a light on it
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Paul McNamee

The DWP's record on disability benefits is a disgrace. We're here to shine a light on it

'Truly sickening': Your stories of the DWP rejecting PIP disability benefit appeals
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Letters

'Truly sickening': Your stories of the DWP rejecting PIP disability benefit appeals

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained
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Universal credit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained

The DWP is pushing the benefit fraud narrative but disabled people know where the real problem lies
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey

The DWP is pushing the benefit fraud narrative but disabled people know where the real problem lies

Drip-feeding support to the poor is not going to solve the crisis we face
Michael Gove
John Bird

Drip-feeding support to the poor is not going to solve the crisis we face

Millions of people on universal credit do not have enough money to live
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Cost of living crisis

Millions of people on universal credit do not have enough money to live

All the changes to minimum wage, income tax, universal credit, cost of living support and more coming in April
Cost of Living Crisis

All the changes to minimum wage, income tax, universal credit, cost of living support and more coming in April

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'
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Benefits

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'

'We have to keep fighting': Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat
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Legacy benefits

'We have to keep fighting': Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat

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Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments
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Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments

Gordon Brown: Universal Credit doesn't add up
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Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown: Universal Credit doesn't add up

Benefits system is forcing people on to the streets, Gordon Brown warns
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Social Justice

Benefits system is forcing people on to the streets, Gordon Brown warns

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift
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Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift

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