Department for Work and Pensions

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: ‘What a failure’
A freedom of information (FOI) request, brought by a campaigner who goes by the name of Ben Claimant, found the nine-month legal action cost the DWP almost half a million pounds

Labour’s housing benefit freeze will cost low-income renters hundreds of pounds a year
Big Issue analysis shows low-income tenants in virtually every type of property across England will face a real-terms housing benefits cut. Labour’s decision to freeze local housing allowance rates could see renters in two-bedroom homes lose almost £1,000 a year on average

The benefits system is broken – and disabled people pay the price for the DWP’s ‘poor service’
Sense was the only disability charity who supplied evidence to a Public Accounts Committee report, which said the DWP was providing ‘unacceptably poor service’ to disability benefits claimants. Its policy and public affairs advisor, Evan John, writes about why change is needed urgently
Disabled Brits suffering ‘unacceptably poor’ treatment at hands of the DWP, damning report finds
DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as ‘one of the biggest assaults on welfare in a generation’

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year

Disability benefits cuts would be ‘devastating’ and ‘increase absolute poverty’, Labour warned

Stigma faced by benefit claimants is baseless. It’s like Donald Trump saying immigrants eat pets

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP’s disability benefits bill

DWP’s ‘misleading and unfair’ consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules

Can people actually self-diagnose with mental illness and claim disability benefits?

‘Rushed implementation’ of AI in DWP benefits system could ‘harm’ people, experts fear

Starmer wants to ‘mainline’ AI into the UK’s ‘veins’. Here are the opportunities – and the risks

DWP’s bank account spying plan is an attack on the poor. It must be scrapped in 2025

Dodgy landlords, DWP misery and our brilliant vendors: This is how Big Issue changed lives in 2024

All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils

‘You want it to be magical for your kids’: Here’s how the two-child benefit cap is ruining Christmas

Millions of pensioners in ‘desperate need’ lose winter fuel payment: ‘We fear what will happen’

DWP wants to reform benefits to cut costs, not help disabled people into work, court hears

Scotland is right to scrap the cruel two-child benefit cap. It’s now time for Labour to act

A strong benefits system is the sign of a healthy society – and essential to ending child poverty

Labour must ‘immediately’ scrap two-child benefit cap if it wants to end child poverty, charities say
