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From two-child benefit cap to rough sleeping: Everything that's missing from the King's Speech
The King arrives for the State Opening of Parliament
King's Speech

From two-child benefit cap to rough sleeping: Everything that's missing from the King's Speech

Food banks can take hope from election result – if Labour takes action before another tough winter
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Charlotte White

Food banks can take hope from election result – if Labour takes action before another tough winter

DWP's 'automation' of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say
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Universal credit

DWP's 'automation' of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say

July 2024 DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions
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Benefits

July 2024 DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions

June 2024 payment dates for DWP benefits – plus universal credit increase
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Benefits

June 2024 payment dates for DWP benefits – plus universal credit increase

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know
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Universal credit

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials
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Universal credit

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have not solved rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive
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Cass Francis

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to 'automatic DWP deductions'
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Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to 'automatic DWP deductions'

'We're at breaking point': Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars
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Food banks

'We're at breaking point': Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars

DWP sparks outcry with plan to hire 2,500 'agents' to investigate universal credit claimants
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Benefit fraud

DWP sparks outcry with plan to hire 2,500 'agents' to investigate universal credit claimants

Universal credit changes risk pushing vulnerable benefit claimants 'into crisis', DWP warned
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Universal credit

Universal credit changes risk pushing vulnerable benefit claimants 'into crisis', DWP warned

Applying for DWP benefits is 'soul-destroying' and 'unnecessarily difficult', study finds
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Benefits

Applying for DWP benefits is 'soul-destroying' and 'unnecessarily difficult', study finds

Letters: Benefits system does need reforming – but not in the way Rishi Sunak thinks
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Letters

Letters: Benefits system does need reforming – but not in the way Rishi Sunak thinks

Letters: I'm autistic and the DWP's benefit reforms make me very scared for the future
Letters

Letters: I'm autistic and the DWP's benefit reforms make me very scared for the future

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Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
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Benefits

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'
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Universal credit

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'

DWP could be 'fantastic' under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: 'Don't write the DWP off'
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Politics

DWP could be 'fantastic' under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: 'Don't write the DWP off'

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late
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Sabine Goodwin

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late