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Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate
Mental health
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate

A reader tells a few home truths about the financial state we find ourselves in
DWP plans to spy on claimants' bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Mikey Erhardt

DWP plans to spy on claimants' bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people

'My son lives without any joy': How DWP's two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
Keir Starmer during a Sky Sports interview at Emirates Stadium
Joseph Howes

'My son lives without any joy': How DWP's two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'
Universal credit

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'

Poor, sick and disabled pensioners to lose winter fuel payment: 'We are incredibly worried'
Winter fuel payment

Poor, sick and disabled pensioners to lose winter fuel payment: 'We are incredibly worried'

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Pensioners in need risk missing out on winter fuel payment and benefits worth £3,900
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Pension Credit

Pensioners in need risk missing out on winter fuel payment and benefits worth £3,900

Thousands call on Labour and DWP to scrap 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms
Disability benefits

Thousands call on Labour and DWP to scrap 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms

Cuts to disability benefits in autumn budget would plunge disabled people into deep poverty
DWP benefits protest
Anela Anwar

Cuts to disability benefits in autumn budget would plunge disabled people into deep poverty

Half of people claiming universal credit ran out of food in the last month
Trussell Trust food banks
Universal Credit

Half of people claiming universal credit ran out of food in the last month

DWP extends household support fund to help families struggling with cost of living
MPs told the Government to keep the £20 Universal Credit increase
Household support fund

DWP extends household support fund to help families struggling with cost of living

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system
Letters

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system

DWP cuts off benefits for 280,000 people over universal credit change: 'This is extremely worrying'
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Benefits

DWP cuts off benefits for 280,000 people over universal credit change: 'This is extremely worrying'

DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'
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BENEFITS

DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'

DWP Jobcentre security guards 'suffer' and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics
dwp jobcentre security guards on the picket line
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP Jobcentre security guards 'suffer' and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics

Scrap two-child benefit cap to end child poverty, Labour told: 'Good intentions are not enough'
Starmer and Phillipson at a school
Child poverty

Scrap two-child benefit cap to end child poverty, Labour told: 'Good intentions are not enough'

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people's lives difficult
Liz Kendall DWP
Letters

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people's lives difficult

Jess Phillips on why Labour is the party for women and terminally ill sister-in-law's fight for benefits
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Jess Phillips on why Labour is the party for women and terminally ill sister-in-law's fight for benefits

Letters: DWP benefit reforms are fuelled by decades of disability hate
Letters

Letters: DWP benefit reforms are fuelled by decades of disability hate

Key takeaways from Labour's manifesto pledges for work, benefits and disability rights
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner on the first day of the general election campaign
General election 2024

Key takeaways from Labour's manifesto pledges for work, benefits and disability rights

DWP plans to spy on benefit claimants' bank accounts must 'never be resurrected'
Person using an ATM
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP plans to spy on benefit claimants' bank accounts must 'never be resurrected'

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

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DWP snooping on benefit claimants' bank accounts will 'decimate civil liberties', campaigners warn
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP snooping on benefit claimants' bank accounts will 'decimate civil liberties', campaigners warn

Would devolution of the DWP be a better way of delivering benefits and welfare?
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Department for Work and Pensions

Would devolution of the DWP be a better way of delivering benefits and welfare?

I know how to make the DWP better and get more people into work – but they're just not listening
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John McDonough

I know how to make the DWP better and get more people into work – but they're just not listening

Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: 'Disabled voices should be heard'
dwp protest
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Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: 'Disabled voices should be heard'