DWP

Timms Review recommends changes to ‘dehumanising’ PIP assessment process
Disability benefits

Timms Review recommends changes to ‘dehumanising’ PIP assessment process

Stephen Timms and the co-chairs of his review have announced their first recommendations for changes to the disability benefits assessment process – but are they the right reforms?

British public don’t back cuts to disability benefits – even Reform and Tory voters
Disability benefits

British public don’t back cuts to disability benefits – even Reform and Tory voters

Only 7% of people said there should be less spending on disability benefits, figures from the British Social Attitudes survey suggest

Reform wants to slash £50 billion from welfare spending. Here’s what it could mean for benefits
Reform UK

Reform wants to slash £50 billion from welfare spending. Here’s what it could mean for benefits

Reform UK want to overhaul the benefits system. Campaigners have slammed the plans as “cruel” and unrealistic.

Access to Work cuts lock disabled actor out of her career: ‘Will I ever be on stage again?’
Social Justice

Access to Work cuts lock disabled actor out of her career: ‘Will I ever be on stage again?’

PIP assessment process is ‘dehumanising’ and ‘degrading’, government’s Timms Review finds
Disability benefits

PIP assessment process is ‘dehumanising’ and ‘degrading’, government’s Timms Review finds

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Four ways the government could change PIP for the better
Ross Barrett

Four ways the government could change PIP for the better

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say
Benefits

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say

The Timms Review must stop people with terminal illness being forced to reapply for PIP 
Becca Stacey

The Timms Review must stop people with terminal illness being forced to reapply for PIP 

Letters: Cutting Access to Work is impractical and cruel
Letters

Letters: Cutting Access to Work is impractical and cruel

DWP to hire 500 new Access to Work case workers – but will it save the scheme?
Access to Work

DWP to hire 500 new Access to Work case workers – but will it save the scheme?

‘I cannot see a secure future if Access to Work continues to cap budgets. I could lose my job’
Access to work

‘I cannot see a secure future if Access to Work continues to cap budgets. I could lose my job’

Carer’s allowance turns 50: ‘I keep the money side of things from her, I don’t want her to worry’
Unpaid carers

Carer’s allowance turns 50: ‘I keep the money side of things from her, I don’t want her to worry’

One in three terminally ill people miss out on benefits in the final year of their life
benefits

One in three terminally ill people miss out on benefits in the final year of their life

Access to Work delays double in four years leaving disabled people at risk of losing jobs
benefits

Access to Work delays double in four years leaving disabled people at risk of losing jobs

DWP penalises universal credit claimant despite getting new job: ‘Congratulations – you’re sanctioned’
Universal credit

DWP penalises universal credit claimant despite getting new job: ‘Congratulations – you’re sanctioned’

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

DWP’s ‘unhealthy’ AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds
Artificial intelligence

DWP’s ‘unhealthy’ AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead
Diane Johnson

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead

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

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’

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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

‘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

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes
Wealth tax

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes

Labour’s benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it
Paul McNamee

Labour’s benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it