Poverty
DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?

DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?
Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’
‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness

‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
When it comes to poverty prevention it’s minds we must change – before anything else

When it comes to poverty prevention it’s minds we must change – before anything else
Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy

Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy
‘It’s a choice between dinner and devices’: Millions of children held back by digital poverty

‘It’s a choice between dinner and devices’: Millions of children held back by digital poverty
Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts

DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: ‘It needs to change’

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: ‘It needs to change’
DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say

DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say
Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories

Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners ‘suffer for rest of their lives’

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners ‘suffer for rest of their lives’
Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt

Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt
DWP shamed over ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: ‘Scrap this sibling tax’

DWP shamed over ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: ‘Scrap this sibling tax’
Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is ‘second most powerful country in the world’. That’s ‘hilarious propaganda’

Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is ‘second most powerful country in the world’. That’s ‘hilarious propaganda’
‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars

‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say

‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
DWP recruiting ‘covert surveillance officers’ to snoop on benefit claimants: ‘I fear for the future’

DWP recruiting ‘covert surveillance officers’ to snoop on benefit claimants: ‘I fear for the future’
I’m a single mum living in poverty. Worrying about how it affects my children keeps me up at night

I’m a single mum living in poverty. Worrying about how it affects my children keeps me up at night
The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children’s charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution
