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DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as ‘one of the biggest assaults on welfare in a generation’
Department for Work and Pensions

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
Benefits

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
Disability benefits

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
Kate Anderson

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
Disability benefits

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
Disability benefits

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?
Benefits

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
Department for Work and Pensions

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

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025

Help with funeral costs: Know your options
Funeral poverty

Help with funeral costs: Know your options

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

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
2024

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
Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster

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
Two-child benefit cap

‘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’
Winter fuel payment

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
Disability benefits

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

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People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this
Work

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this

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

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
Child poverty

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

‘Christmas is out’: Meet the pensioners cancelling Christmas over Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts
Winter Fuel Payment

‘Christmas is out’: Meet the pensioners cancelling Christmas over Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts