Poverty
DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?
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DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?
Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'
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Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'
'It's evil what they're doing': DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
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'It's evil what they're doing': DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
When it comes to poverty prevention it's minds we must change – before anything else
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When it comes to poverty prevention it's minds we must change – before anything else
Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy
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Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy
'It's a choice between dinner and devices': Millions of children held back by digital poverty
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'It's a choice between dinner and devices': Millions of children held back by digital poverty
Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
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Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts
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DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts
Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening 'harsh' disability benefits system, experts warn
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Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening 'harsh' disability benefits system, experts warn
Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'
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Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'
DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say
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DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say
Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
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Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'
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Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'
Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt
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Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt
DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'
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DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'
Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is 'second most powerful country in the world'. That's 'hilarious propaganda'
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Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is 'second most powerful country in the world'. That's 'hilarious propaganda'
'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
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'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
'DWP has learnt nothing': DWP sparks fury by seizing woman's £16k inheritance over Co-op job
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'DWP has learnt nothing': DWP sparks fury by seizing woman's £16k inheritance over Co-op job
'A national scandal': Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
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'A national scandal': Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants: 'I fear for the future'
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