Welfare

Panic attacks, pressure to 'ramp up numbers' and a 'bullying atmosphere': Life as a DWP disability benefits assessor
dwp disability benefits
Disability benefits

Panic attacks, pressure to 'ramp up numbers' and a 'bullying atmosphere': Life as a DWP disability benefits assessor

'I'm an amputee and the DWP reduced my disability benefits. I worried I would be homeless'
disability benefits/ aidan
Disability benefits

'I'm an amputee and the DWP reduced my disability benefits. I worried I would be homeless'

Exclusive: Disabled people are 'set up to fail' by the DWP in target-driven disability benefits system, whistleblowers reveal
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Disability benefits

Exclusive: Disabled people are 'set up to fail' by the DWP in target-driven disability benefits system, whistleblowers reveal

In the face of this emergency, revolutionary thinking is required
Homeless on Victoria Embankment
John Bird

In the face of this emergency, revolutionary thinking is required

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'
universal ceedit/ inflation
Benefits

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'

A poverty manifesto about the glues, syrups and treacles that get people stuck
Portrait of the satirist Jonathan Swift by Michael Dahl
John Bird

A poverty manifesto about the glues, syrups and treacles that get people stuck

'We have to keep fighting': Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat
legacy benefits protesters
Legacy benefits

'We have to keep fighting': Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat

Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments
legacy benefits
Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments

I was born into poverty – and 77 years later we still haven't solved it
Poverty in postwar London
John Bird

I was born into poverty – and 77 years later we still haven't solved it

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift
legacy benefits
Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift

How we lost sight of the Beveridge Principles
William Beveridge
Dr Lee Gregory

How we lost sight of the Beveridge Principles

Will benefits rise in line with inflation?
benefits/ universal credit
Cost of living crisis

Will benefits rise in line with inflation?

New work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith has consistently voted to cut benefits
Chloe Smith/ Benefits
Cost of living crisis

New work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith has consistently voted to cut benefits

BetterPod: Will Poulter and Aneita Lewis on the cost-of-living crisis
Will Poulter and Aneita Lewis on BetterPod
Financial insecurity

BetterPod: Will Poulter and Aneita Lewis on the cost-of-living crisis

Cost of living payments: Anxiety and confusion as millions left waiting for support
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payments: Anxiety and confusion as millions left waiting for support

More than eight million families to get new cost of living payment in July
A woman holds a glass jar marked
Cost of living

More than eight million families to get new cost of living payment in July

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'I feel stuck': How the cost of living crisis is impacting universal credit claimants
cost of living crisis

'I feel stuck': How the cost of living crisis is impacting universal credit claimants

Universal credit switchover risks pushing people into 'destitution', charities warn
universal credit debt advice
Welfare system

Universal credit switchover risks pushing people into 'destitution', charities warn

‘A national scandal’: High court rejects appeal to keep disability benefits in line with universal credit
legacy benefits
welfare system

‘A national scandal’: High court rejects appeal to keep disability benefits in line with universal credit

Low-income families in Scotland to receive £20 per week from April
scottish child payment
welfare system

Low-income families in Scotland to receive £20 per week from April