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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible
Benefits

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible

‘People need aid, not criminalisation’: Sadiq Khan’s comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate
Crime

‘People need aid, not criminalisation’: Sadiq Khan’s comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’
Disability rights

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’

‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
Benefits

‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness

DWP risks repeat of Post Office scandal with plan to snoop on claimants’ bank accounts, MPs warn
Benefits

DWP risks repeat of Post Office scandal with plan to snoop on claimants’ bank accounts, MPs warn

Emmerdale star Alexander Lincoln: ‘When people lose their house, they can lose their humanity’
Homelessness

Emmerdale star Alexander Lincoln: ‘When people lose their house, they can lose their humanity’

Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy
Mark Game

Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy

‘It’s a choice between dinner and devices’: Millions of children held back by digital poverty
Exclusive

‘It’s a choice between dinner and devices’: Millions of children held back by digital poverty

Renters being forced to move house costs £550m per year: ‘I’m always in fight or flight’
RENTING

Renters being forced to move house costs £550m per year: ‘I’m always in fight or flight’

DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
Benefits

DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts

Rishi Sunak is celebrating UK’s inflation fall – there’s just several problems
Inflation

Rishi Sunak is celebrating UK’s inflation fall – there’s just several problems

Liz Truss blames the ‘deep state’ and the ‘establishment’ for her downfall. Here’s why she’s wrong
Politics

Liz Truss blames the ‘deep state’ and the ‘establishment’ for her downfall. Here’s why she’s wrong

Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening ‘harsh’ disability benefits system, experts warn
Benefits

Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening ‘harsh’ disability benefits system, experts warn

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

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

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners ‘suffer for rest of their lives’
Pensions

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners ‘suffer for rest of their lives’

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here’s when you will get the higher amount
Benefits

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here’s when you will get the higher amount

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DWP shamed over ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: ‘Scrap this sibling tax’
Benefits

DWP shamed over ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: ‘Scrap this sibling tax’

‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
Hygiene poverty

‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars

‘DWP has learnt nothing’: DWP sparks fury by seizing woman’s £16k inheritance over Co-op job
Department for Work and Pensions

‘DWP has learnt nothing’: DWP sparks fury by seizing woman’s £16k inheritance over Co-op job

‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
Cost of living crisis

‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say