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Benefits

Labour's disability benefits bill is supposed to help people into work – but the jobs aren't there
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall speaking in parliament
Disability Benefits

Labour's disability benefits bill is supposed to help people into work – but the jobs aren't there

I'm a Labour MP and this is why I still can't support the government's disability benefits cuts
Cat Eccles MP

I'm a Labour MP and this is why I still can't support the government's disability benefits cuts

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?
Keir Starmer
Disability benefits

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?

If Labour takes my PIP away, I'll have to give up the job I love
Photo of Hannah Moreton, who works for Sense
Disability benefits

If Labour takes my PIP away, I'll have to give up the job I love

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour's benefit cuts could make them homeless
Keir Starmer
Disability benefits

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour's benefit cuts could make them homeless

Benefit cuts are not a 'pathway to work' – they risk making people homeless
a blue tent pitched in a car park with a shopping trolley and plastic bags leaning against it
Emma Haddad

Benefit cuts are not a 'pathway to work' – they risk making people homeless

'I am not a scrounger': Paralympic champions blast Labour over disability benefit cuts
Paralympians Sophie Christansen, David Smith and Ben Pritchard
Disability benefit cuts

'I am not a scrounger': Paralympic champions blast Labour over disability benefit cuts

Inside the food banks seeing 'highest demand ever seen' as cost of living harms families
Food preparation and the cafe at Granville Community Kitchen in North West London. Image: Mary Turner/ IFAN
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing 'highest demand ever seen' as cost of living harms families

Can Labour end the need for food banks? The new Crisis and Resilience Fund is a welcome start
food banks
Sabine Goodwin

Can Labour end the need for food banks? The new Crisis and Resilience Fund is a welcome start

'I was barely existing before PIP': Benefit claimants say they're 'terrified' of Labour's cuts
Disability benefits

'I was barely existing before PIP': Benefit claimants say they're 'terrified' of Labour's cuts

Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts: 'The government is just not listening'
Keir Starmer
Disability benefits

Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts: 'The government is just not listening'

Pressure mounts on Labour over two-child benefit cap as Scotland sets end date: 'Families can't wait'
Shirley-Anne Somerville, social justice secretary for the Scottish government, announced the plan for a two-child limit payment on a visit to Busy Bees Bellfield parent and toddler group in Portobello
Two-child benefit cap

Pressure mounts on Labour over two-child benefit cap as Scotland sets end date: 'Families can't wait'

Meet the rebel Labour MPs voting against disability benefit cuts: 'I don't want to be part of it'
Labour MPs join photo-call to protest against disability benefit cuts.
Disability benefits

Meet the rebel Labour MPs voting against disability benefit cuts: 'I don't want to be part of it'

70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under Labour's cuts than originally expected
Rachel Reeves
Disability benefits

70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under Labour's cuts than originally expected

Letters: Labour is redefining what it means to be disabled to satisfy Rachel Reeves
Letters

Letters: Labour is redefining what it means to be disabled to satisfy Rachel Reeves

Scrap two-child benefit cap if you're serious about child poverty, Rachel Reeves told
Rachel Reeves
Two-child benefit cap

Scrap two-child benefit cap if you're serious about child poverty, Rachel Reeves told

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Living with long Covid can be devastating – it's time our benefits system recognised that
Photo of MP Jo Platt against a natural outdoor background
Jo Platt MP

Living with long Covid can be devastating – it's time our benefits system recognised that

PIP literally saved my life. Now I fear Labour's benefit cuts will take it all away
Disability benefits

PIP literally saved my life. Now I fear Labour's benefit cuts will take it all away

'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families
Immigration

'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families

Labour's disability benefit cuts will force nearly half a million people to turn to food banks
Disability benefits

Labour's disability benefit cuts will force nearly half a million people to turn to food banks