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

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

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?
Food

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?

Letters: If it was about national pride, the England flags would’ve been flying a long time ago
Letters

Letters: If it was about national pride, the England flags would’ve been flying a long time ago

I’m a single dad asking Keir Starmer and his government to do more to tackle child poverty
Jonny Roberts

I’m a single dad asking Keir Starmer and his government to do more to tackle child poverty

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained
Universal credit

What is universal credit? The DWP benefit explained

I couldn’t afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials
Gloria Odhi

I couldn’t afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy
Child poverty

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK
Living standards

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts
Food banks

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts

Disabled families use foil blankets to keep warm as energy bills keep surging: ‘We have to keep going’
fuel poverty

Disabled families use foil blankets to keep warm as energy bills keep surging: ‘We have to keep going’

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn’t think I needed PIP
Disability benefits

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn’t think I needed PIP

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: ‘We have reinvented a Victorian problem’
Hygiene poverty

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: ‘We have reinvented a Victorian problem’

Keir Starmer, it’s time to face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits
Child poverty

Keir Starmer, it’s time to face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits

Cost of living payments: Where to get help in 2025 now the scheme is over
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payments: Where to get help in 2025 now the scheme is over

Measles, whooping cough and infection: Why children’s health is getting worse in the UK
Child poverty

Measles, whooping cough and infection: Why children’s health is getting worse in the UK

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Baby banks in London have run out of nappies
Emily Compston

Baby banks in London have run out of nappies

Pensioners in poverty are isolated and eating only one meal a day – they need help
Morgan Vine

Pensioners in poverty are isolated and eating only one meal a day – they need help

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

Nutrition is not always a lifestyle choice. It’s harder to be healthy if you live in the North
Professor Amelia Lake

Nutrition is not always a lifestyle choice. It’s harder to be healthy if you live in the North