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Where to get free financial advice now – from benefits to budgeting
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Money

Where to get free financial advice now – from benefits to budgeting

Experts explain the best places to get free financial advice, whether it's on benefits, budgeting, or getting out of debt
Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'
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Benefits

Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'

UK's 'cruel' benefits system is 'ruining lives' and 'violating human rights', Amnesty report finds
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Benefits

UK's 'cruel' benefits system is 'ruining lives' and 'violating human rights', Amnesty report finds

DWP ordered to correct 'entirely misleading' claim about universal credit claimants looking for work
Benefits

DWP ordered to correct 'entirely misleading' claim about universal credit claimants looking for work

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work

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'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts
Disabled people protest benefits cuts at Downing Street ahead of the Spring Statement
Spring Statement

'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to parliament
Spring Statement

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you

We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected
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Mikey Erhardt

We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected

Labour's rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty
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Anela Anwar

Labour's rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty

DWP minister 'regrets' making disabled people feel anxious over benefit cuts
DWP minister Stephen Timms
Disability benefits

DWP minister 'regrets' making disabled people feel anxious over benefit cuts

Labour warned it is 'undermining' its own welfare reforms with £5bn of benefits cuts
Benefits

Labour warned it is 'undermining' its own welfare reforms with £5bn of benefits cuts

How Labour's changes to universal credit are going to impact millions of Brits
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Universal Credit

How Labour's changes to universal credit are going to impact millions of Brits

DWP told to stop forcibly taking cash from benefit claimants to pay for its own mistakes
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP told to stop forcibly taking cash from benefit claimants to pay for its own mistakes

The UN's damning verdict on UK poverty must inspire us to force change
UK prime minister Kier Starmer
Jen Clark

The UN's damning verdict on UK poverty must inspire us to force change

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'
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Food banks

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts
DWP secretary Liz Kendall
Universal credit

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts

Majority of social housing tenants struggling to pay rent – here's why
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Social housing

Majority of social housing tenants struggling to pay rent – here's why

Disability benefits cuts would be 'devastating' and 'increase absolute poverty', Labour warned
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Disability benefits

Disability benefits cuts would be 'devastating' and 'increase absolute poverty', Labour warned

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

Letters: I'm a disabled woman, aged 60. The DWP made me feel like a poor second-class citizen
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Letters

Letters: I'm a disabled woman, aged 60. The DWP made me feel like a poor second-class citizen

Universal credit advance payment: Bridging the five-week wait
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Benefits

Universal credit advance payment: Bridging the five-week wait

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AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it's brought bias and hunger
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Iris Lim

AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it's brought bias and hunger

What benefits can I claim?
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Benefits

What benefits can I claim?

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
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Food banks

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions 'dangerously' rationing heating
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Energy bills

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions 'dangerously' rationing heating

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