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How the groundbreaking Crisis and Resilience Fund can help end the need for food banks
Sabine Goodwin

How the groundbreaking Crisis and Resilience Fund can help end the need for food banks

Disability benefit claimants at risk of poverty because of ‘poor service’ from DWP, MPs warn
Poverty

Disability benefit claimants at risk of poverty because of ‘poor service’ from DWP, MPs warn

The dehumanising narratives around benefits need to stop in 2026 – for all our sakes
Ruth Patrick

The dehumanising narratives around benefits need to stop in 2026 – for all our sakes

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?
Mikey Erhardt

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system
Arun Veerappan

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system

Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked
Benefits

Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked

Scotland’s social security system treated me better as a disabled person. DWP must take notes
Caroline Cawley

Scotland’s social security system treated me better as a disabled person. DWP must take notes

Older people are surviving, not living. The autumn budget cannot ignore pensioner poverty
Joanna Elson

Older people are surviving, not living. The autumn budget cannot ignore pensioner poverty

‘I spent my burial fund on repairs’: Pensioners in poverty pushed to breaking point by unexpected bills
Pension poverty

‘I spent my burial fund on repairs’: Pensioners in poverty pushed to breaking point by unexpected bills

I’m a working mum earning a decent salary – but the two-child limit on benefits hits my family too
Thea Jaffe

I’m a working mum earning a decent salary – but the two-child limit on benefits hits my family too

15 years on, it’s time we made universal credit the game changer it can be 
Iain Porter

15 years on, it’s time we made universal credit the game changer it can be 

Universal credit sanctions more ‘severe’ and ‘damaging’ than criminal fines, report finds
Universal credit

Universal credit sanctions more ‘severe’ and ‘damaging’ than criminal fines, report finds

Disabled people have to be at the table with the government to ‘keep Britain working’
Claire Fisher

Disabled people have to be at the table with the government to ‘keep Britain working’

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?

‘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

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?

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

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system

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