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What benefits can I claim from the DWP to help me cover the cost of living?
Benefits

What benefits can I claim from the DWP to help me cover the cost of living?

Navigating social security can be daunting. Here’s what you need to know about what benefits you could claim

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
Ayla Ozmen

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired

New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process

Employers are being urged to step up and help disabled people stay in work. But is it enough?
Work

Employers are being urged to step up and help disabled people stay in work. But is it enough?

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that 60 employers will join forces with the government to create better practices to help disabled people stay in work – but some campaigners worry this is not enough when there are so many barriers to employment

This metal song perfectly sums up the anger felt by disabled people towards the benefits system
Music

This metal song perfectly sums up the anger felt by disabled people towards the benefits system

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system
Lucy Bannister

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system

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

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

Families with disabled children left waiting months to get benefits due to DWP delays
Benefits

Families with disabled children left waiting months to get benefits due to DWP delays

UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped
Jasleen Chaggar

UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?
Benefit fraud

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support
Access to work

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025
Christmas

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025

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

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?
Disability benefits

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I’m eligible?

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments
Disability benefits

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments

Universal credit sanctions ‘undermine’ Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs
Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit sanctions ‘undermine’ Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs

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’

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof
Juliette Flach

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof

I’ve had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement
Benefits

I’ve had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement

Homeless people risk losing benefits if they don’t move to universal credit, DWP warns
Universal credit

Homeless people risk losing benefits if they don’t move to universal credit, DWP warns

‘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

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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

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

Revealed: Scrapping two-child benefit limit will make ‘no difference at all’ to 140,000 children in poverty
Two-child limit

Revealed: Scrapping two-child benefit limit will make ‘no difference at all’ to 140,000 children in poverty

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