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PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms
Department for Work and Pensions

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms

Letters: I’m an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here’s what private school taught me
Letters

Letters: I’m an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here’s what private school taught me

Rob Delaney: ‘Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long’
Politics

Rob Delaney: ‘Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long’

Labour ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap
Child poverty

Labour ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap

DWP Jobcentre security guards ‘suffer’ and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP Jobcentre security guards ‘suffer’ and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics

Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks ‘criminalising’ poverty: ‘Some are out of options’
Shoplifting

Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks ‘criminalising’ poverty: ‘Some are out of options’

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: ‘Stressed out to the max’
Childcare

Summer holiday childcare costs surge to more than £1,000 per child: ‘Stressed out to the max’

Seven of the last nine PMs went to Oxford. Has it gotten us any closer to solving child poverty?
John Bird

Seven of the last nine PMs went to Oxford. Has it gotten us any closer to solving child poverty?

From two-child benefit cap to rough sleeping: Everything that’s missing from the King’s Speech
King's Speech

From two-child benefit cap to rough sleeping: Everything that’s missing from the King’s Speech

Housing, benefits and railways: Key takeaways from Labour’s first King’s Speech
King's Speech

Housing, benefits and railways: Key takeaways from Labour’s first King’s Speech

Workers blame Amazon’s ‘union-busting’ after losing historic union vote: ‘This is not the end’
Workers' rights

Workers blame Amazon’s ‘union-busting’ after losing historic union vote: ‘This is not the end’

What will be in King’s Speech? Here’s 5 things to look out for – from benefits to conversion therapy
King's speech

What will be in King’s Speech? Here’s 5 things to look out for – from benefits to conversion therapy

‘Huge mandate’: Brits of all political stripes want stronger rights for workers, poll finds
workers' rights

‘Huge mandate’: Brits of all political stripes want stronger rights for workers, poll finds

From a new UK pilot to union backing: The four-day working week has never been closer to reality
Four-day working week

From a new UK pilot to union backing: The four-day working week has never been closer to reality

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people’s lives difficult
Letters

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people’s lives difficult

Smart, no-nonsense moves by Starmer show how toxic and incompetent the Tories have really been
Sam Delaney

Smart, no-nonsense moves by Starmer show how toxic and incompetent the Tories have really been

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1.6 million children at risk of ‘losing their life chances’ because of ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap
Child poverty

1.6 million children at risk of ‘losing their life chances’ because of ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

One of the biggest crises facing the UK is barely talked about – the crisis of an ageing population
James Rose

One of the biggest crises facing the UK is barely talked about – the crisis of an ageing population

DWP’s ‘automation’ of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say
Universal credit

DWP’s ‘automation’ of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say

Inside the years-long pay row in Scotland risking the futures of working-class students
Education

Inside the years-long pay row in Scotland risking the futures of working-class students