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

DWP payment dates in August 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

Here is everything you need to know about when you’ll get your benefits this month and how to apply if you think you might be eligible

This man has found a way to travel by train for free… with one small catch
Transport

This man has found a way to travel by train for free… with one small catch

Robert Jenrick has recently had it in for fare dodgers, but Ed Wise has a more inventive way to cut down on train fares

24 discounted days out for families on universal credit and other benefits this summer holiday
Summer survival guide

24 discounted days out for families on universal credit and other benefits this summer holiday

We round up the universal credit discounts for family days out to treat your little ones without breaking the bank over the summer holidays

How to have summer fun without splashing the cash, according to Mr MoneyJar
Summer

How to have summer fun without splashing the cash, according to Mr MoneyJar

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays
Kids eat free

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays

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‘Now I know what’s wrong with my hearing’
Health

‘Now I know what’s wrong with my hearing’

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?
Letters

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?

From busy beavers to gentle bison: Why you should go rewilding in the country this summer
Rewilding

From busy beavers to gentle bison: Why you should go rewilding in the country this summer

Letters: What is being done to the people of Palestine IS the crime
Letters

Letters: What is being done to the people of Palestine IS the crime

Next stop, Wrexham! Why you should holiday in Britain’s least-loved places
Tourism

Next stop, Wrexham! Why you should holiday in Britain’s least-loved places

Why electric cars aren’t as scary as you think – a beginner’s guide to the Citroën ë-Berlingo
Advertorial

Why electric cars aren’t as scary as you think – a beginner’s guide to the Citroën ë-Berlingo

Letters: A two-tier society has never worked – even at the height of this nation’s power
Letters

Letters: A two-tier society has never worked – even at the height of this nation’s power

DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
Benefits

DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

The NHS is facing an existential crisis. Can Labour’s 10-year plan really save it?
NHS

The NHS is facing an existential crisis. Can Labour’s 10-year plan really save it?

Letters: None of what Labour is doing is perfect – but it’s better than what went before
Letters

Letters: None of what Labour is doing is perfect – but it’s better than what went before

‘I’m seen as trouble for wearing a tracksuit’: Young people share why they wear the clothes they wear
Onside Takeover

‘I’m seen as trouble for wearing a tracksuit’: Young people share why they wear the clothes they wear

School in its traditional form didn’t work for me – so I decided to homeschool myself
Chloe Jones

School in its traditional form didn’t work for me – so I decided to homeschool myself

From being understood to the price of Dr Pepper: Young people share their biggest issues
Onside Takeover

From being understood to the price of Dr Pepper: Young people share their biggest issues

I’m 17 years old. Here’s how playing bowls has changed my life
Onside Takeover

I’m 17 years old. Here’s how playing bowls has changed my life

I was a class clown and didn’t care what happened to me. Joining a youth club changed everything
Onside Takeover

I was a class clown and didn’t care what happened to me. Joining a youth club changed everything

What happens when Big Issue vendors get smartphone access? Lives transform
Advertorial

What happens when Big Issue vendors get smartphone access? Lives transform

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Letters: We abandoned our kids when we allowed youth clubs to close
Letters

Letters: We abandoned our kids when we allowed youth clubs to close

MPs vote to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales: ‘We are right to give people a choice’
Assisted dying

MPs vote to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales: ‘We are right to give people a choice’

We ignore ‘forgotten’ diseases like leprosy at our peril
Diseases

We ignore ‘forgotten’ diseases like leprosy at our peril

Letters: Labour is redefining what it means to be disabled to satisfy Rachel Reeves
Letters

Letters: Labour is redefining what it means to be disabled to satisfy Rachel Reeves