Benefits

Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024
winter heating payment
Cost of living crisis

Here's when people in Scotland will get the winter heating payment in 2023 and 2024

Five-month wait for housing benefit boost risks 18,000 Londoners falling into homelessness
Single Homeless Project's Tadhg Mockler said the wait for housing benefit to be boosted when local housing allowance rates rise in April is keeping people trapped in homelessness
Homelessness

Five-month wait for housing benefit boost risks 18,000 Londoners falling into homelessness

DWP is 'penalising' terminally ill people for 'not dying fast enough', campaigner warns
Mark Hughes
Benefits

DWP is 'penalising' terminally ill people for 'not dying fast enough', campaigner warns

'Ministers aren't interested in evidence': DWP sanctions are driving people to disability benefits
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Benefits

'Ministers aren't interested in evidence': DWP sanctions are driving people to disability benefits

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn
ai
Benefits

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn

DWP faces 'crisis' as staff driven to 'depression' and 'sickness' amid mounting pressure
DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP faces 'crisis' as staff driven to 'depression' and 'sickness' amid mounting pressure

UK's economic stagnation has left households £4,300 poorer – but there's a plan to fix it
stagnation has left British households poorer
Cost of living

UK's economic stagnation has left households £4,300 poorer – but there's a plan to fix it

Museum of Austerity: The mixed reality exhibition giving a voice to victims of benefit cuts
Art

Museum of Austerity: The mixed reality exhibition giving a voice to victims of benefit cuts

Autumn Statement: Jeremy Hunt accused of 'cynical attack' on sick and disabled benefits claimants
hunt/ autumn statement
Autumn Statement

Autumn Statement: Jeremy Hunt accused of 'cynical attack' on sick and disabled benefits claimants

Families left with 'nothing' as cost of living payments fail to cover essentials: 'My bank account is empty'
benefits recipient
Cost of living crisis

Families left with 'nothing' as cost of living payments fail to cover essentials: 'My bank account is empty'

Benefits claimants to lose free NHS prescriptions if they refuse work: 'We will take your benefits away'
benefits prescriptions
Benefits

Benefits claimants to lose free NHS prescriptions if they refuse work: 'We will take your benefits away'

DWP plans for 'welfare cuts' slammed as 'utter evil' by disability campaigners
disabled person
Welfare reforms

DWP plans for 'welfare cuts' slammed as 'utter evil' by disability campaigners

More than 60,000 renters in London likely to become homeless: 'We can't continue like this'
renters facing homelessness in London
homelessness

More than 60,000 renters in London likely to become homeless: 'We can't continue like this'

Here's where to get help if you can't afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis
Energy bills/ cost of living crisis
Cost of living crisis

Here's where to get help if you can't afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis

Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It's time we listened
disability benefits protest
Dr China Mills

Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It's time we listened

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a 'failure' due to benefits not covering essentials
mental health
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a 'failure' due to benefits not covering essentials

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
One million UK children experienced 'horrifying levels of destitution' last year, study finds
teddy destitution
Child poverty

One million UK children experienced 'horrifying levels of destitution' last year, study finds

I care for my husband and mum full-time, 24/7. The UK government thinks I'm worth £10 a day
Katy Styles

I care for my husband and mum full-time, 24/7. The UK government thinks I'm worth £10 a day

I have a fear of walking. DWP put me through hell waiting for a disability benefits tribunal
Sarah Smithers
Disability benefits

I have a fear of walking. DWP put me through hell waiting for a disability benefits tribunal

Tory by-election candidate blasted over post telling jobless, struggling parents to 'f**k off'
Conservative Party

Tory by-election candidate blasted over post telling jobless, struggling parents to 'f**k off'