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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

Here is everything you need to know about when you’ll get your benefits this month – including what the Labour government’s reforms might mean for you

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?
Disability benefits

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?

A series of hasty U-turns saw the government shelve its plans for the personal independence payment – at least until a review is concluded. Charities urge the government to take the opportunity to rebuild trust and protect disabled people

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’
Disability benefits

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’

MPs from across parties slammed the cuts to disability benefits in a powerful five-hour debate which saw the government make further concessions and delay the cuts to personal independence payment (PIP)

Thousands of disabled people face ten-month wait for benefits due to DWP backlog
Disability benefits

Thousands of disabled people face ten-month wait for benefits due to DWP backlog

How did Keir Starmer end up in such a mess over benefit cuts?
Disability benefits

How did Keir Starmer end up in such a mess over benefit cuts?

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Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote
Disability benefits

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote

I’m a working mum-of-four – ending the two-child benefit cap would be life-changing for us
Two-child benefit cap

I’m a working mum-of-four – ending the two-child benefit cap would be life-changing for us

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love
Disability benefits

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love

‘I am not a scrounger’: Paralympic champions blast Labour over disability benefit cuts
Disability benefit cuts

‘I am not a scrounger’: Paralympic champions blast Labour over disability benefit cuts

Revealed: Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn’s at risk of cuts
Disability benefits

Revealed: Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn’s at risk of cuts

Could the government’s disability benefit cuts be blocked by Labour MPs?
Disability benefits

Could the government’s disability benefit cuts be blocked by Labour MPs?

From the NHS to the DWP: UK’s new data law will make your life ‘radically different’, minister says
Data

From the NHS to the DWP: UK’s new data law will make your life ‘radically different’, minister says

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: ‘A disaster on every front’
Disability benefit cuts

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: ‘A disaster on every front’

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’
Access to Work

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’

Labour must do the hard work of making employment accessible – instead of cutting benefits
Mikey Erhardt

Labour must do the hard work of making employment accessible – instead of cutting benefits

DWP warned benefit claimants are dying of starvation
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP warned benefit claimants are dying of starvation

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Reforming the two-child benefit cap could lift 230,000 under-fives out of poverty, Labour told
Two-child benefit cap

Reforming the two-child benefit cap could lift 230,000 under-fives out of poverty, Labour told

‘It’s a vicious cycle’: Labour’s benefit cuts could push people with MS out of work, report finds
Multiple sclerosis

‘It’s a vicious cycle’: Labour’s benefit cuts could push people with MS out of work, report finds

‘Dangerous’ DWP needs ‘deep-rooted change’ to stop benefit claimants from dying, damning report finds
Benefits

‘Dangerous’ DWP needs ‘deep-rooted change’ to stop benefit claimants from dying, damning report finds

Disability benefit cuts ‘impossible to support’, Starmer told by his own MPs: ‘Cuts create poverty’
Disability benefits

Disability benefit cuts ‘impossible to support’, Starmer told by his own MPs: ‘Cuts create poverty’

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Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer
Employment

Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told
Hunger

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Mum-of-two shares experience of ‘dehumanising’ DWP benefits system: ‘It could kill somebody’
Benefits

Mum-of-two shares experience of ‘dehumanising’ DWP benefits system: ‘It could kill somebody’