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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

Experts explain what personal independence payment (PIP) is, if you're eligible for the disability benefit, and how you can apply
DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?
Renting

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?

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Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can't afford to pay?
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Cost of living crisis

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can't afford to pay?

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about
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Social Justice

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Benefits

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Here's how to make your voice heard against the DWP's disability benefit cuts
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Disability benefits

Here's how to make your voice heard against the DWP's disability benefit cuts

Cuts, universal credit and PIP: Everything you need to know about Labour's benefits overhaul
Liz Kendall DWP secretary
Benefits

Cuts, universal credit and PIP: Everything you need to know about Labour's benefits overhaul

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
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Benefits

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Day

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money

What is a social enterprise?
social enterprise
Explained

What is a social enterprise?

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year
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Benefits

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
Protesters from the London Renters Union protest high rents in May 2024
RENTING

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025
DWP secretary Liz Kendall on the left and Keir Starmer on the right chatting with pensioners
Department for Work and Pensions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025

Fuel poverty in the UK: Why can’t people pay their energy bills?
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Cost of living crisis

Fuel poverty in the UK: Why can’t people pay their energy bills?

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024
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Benefits

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?
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Cost of living crisis

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year
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Christmas

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
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Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

Which charities are fighting homelessness in the UK?
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Homelessness

Which charities are fighting homelessness in the UK?

How to volunteer at a food bank
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Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
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Food banks

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

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