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July 2024 DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions
Benefits

July 2024 DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions

June 2024 payment dates for DWP benefits – plus universal credit increase
Benefits

June 2024 payment dates for DWP benefits – plus universal credit increase

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know
Universal credit

DWP universal credit increase 2024 – everything benefit claimants need to know

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials
Universal credit

Why DWP urgently needs to make universal credit enough so people can afford the essentials

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

10 ways the Tories categorically failed to end rough sleeping

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive
Cass Francis

Next government must increase universal credit so people have enough money to survive

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to ‘automatic DWP deductions’
Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit claimants lose more than £1bn a year to ‘automatic DWP deductions’

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars
Food banks

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars

Universal credit changes risk pushing vulnerable benefit claimants ‘into crisis’, DWP warned
Universal credit

Universal credit changes risk pushing vulnerable benefit claimants ‘into crisis’, DWP warned

Applying for DWP benefits is ‘soul-destroying’ and ‘unnecessarily difficult’, study finds
Benefits

Applying for DWP benefits is ‘soul-destroying’ and ‘unnecessarily difficult’, study finds

Letters: Benefits system does need reforming – but not in the way Rishi Sunak thinks
Letters

Letters: Benefits system does need reforming – but not in the way Rishi Sunak thinks

Letters: I’m autistic and the DWP’s benefit reforms make me very scared for the future
Letters

Letters: I’m autistic and the DWP’s benefit reforms make me very scared for the future

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
Benefits

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: ‘It needs to change’
Universal credit

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: ‘It needs to change’

DWP could be ‘fantastic’ under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: ‘Don’t write the DWP off’
Politics

DWP could be ‘fantastic’ under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: ‘Don’t write the DWP off’

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late
Sabine Goodwin

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late

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‘It’s a win-win solution’: Building social housing could add £50bn to UK economy, study finds
Housing crisis

‘It’s a win-win solution’: Building social housing could add £50bn to UK economy, study finds

More than half of people on universal credit going without food because they can’t afford it
Food banks

More than half of people on universal credit going without food because they can’t afford it

Millions on universal credit left cold, without food and in debt – because the system is failing us
Helen Barnard

Millions on universal credit left cold, without food and in debt – because the system is failing us

Jobcentre work coach driven to suicide attempt by ‘bullying’ culture at DWP: ‘I felt worthless’
Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre work coach driven to suicide attempt by ‘bullying’ culture at DWP: ‘I felt worthless’