Benefits

‘Getting benefits eased pressure on my family’: £9.6bn of universal credit went unclaimed in the last 12 months
Benefits

‘Getting benefits eased pressure on my family’: £9.6bn of universal credit went unclaimed in the last 12 months

Five key things you need to know about PIP
Disability benefits

Five key things you need to know about PIP

DWP penalises universal credit claimant despite getting new job: ‘Congratulations – you’re sanctioned’
Universal credit

DWP penalises universal credit claimant despite getting new job: ‘Congratulations – you’re sanctioned’

Welfare is not a competition – both young and old need protecting from poverty
Joanna Elson

Welfare is not a competition – both young and old need protecting from poverty

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit
Millie Light

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit

Suspended MP Brian Leishman: ‘It’s sad there’s no room for Jeremy and Zarah in the Labour Party’
Politics

Suspended MP Brian Leishman: ‘It’s sad there’s no room for Jeremy and Zarah in the Labour Party’

Universal credit cuts will push 50,000 into poverty despite government’s U-turn, MPs warn
Disability benefits

Universal credit cuts will push 50,000 into poverty despite government’s U-turn, MPs warn

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

It’s time for the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap – we can’t afford not to
Scott Compton

It’s time for the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap – we can’t afford not to

The importance of PIP for disabled people has never been clearer
Gabrielle Pickard Whitehead

The importance of PIP for disabled people has never been clearer

DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is ‘just like carer’s allowance scandal’
Benefits

DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is ‘just like carer’s allowance scandal’

DWP’s ‘unhealthy’ AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds
Artificial intelligence

DWP’s ‘unhealthy’ AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: ‘The public will not stomach inaction’
Child poverty

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: ‘The public will not stomach inaction’

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants ‘won’t be able to retire’ – adding billions to the benefits bill
RENTING

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants ‘won’t be able to retire’ – adding billions to the benefits bill

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?
Disability benefits

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’
Disability benefits

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’

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Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both
Emily Holzhausen

Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’
Poverty

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits
Two-child benefit cap

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits

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