Welfare cuts

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system
Arun Veerappan

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system

Arun Veerappan, research director at the Disability Policy Centre, writes about what must really change to fix the welfare system

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
Ayla Ozmen

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired

New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system
Lucy Bannister

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system

Stigma and suspicion in our social security system is pushing people away from work and damaging health. Lucy Bannister from Turn2us explains why trust, confidence and respect will be critical for the government’s goals

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: ‘There’s no quick fix’
Politics

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: ‘There’s no quick fix’

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations
Rick Burgess and Alex Firth

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

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Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit
Millie Light

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?
Mikey Erhardt

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?

Suspended MP Brian Leishman: ‘It’s sad there’s no room for Jeremy and Zarah in the Labour Party’
Politics

Suspended MP Brian Leishman: ‘It’s sad there’s no room for Jeremy and Zarah in the Labour Party’

Suspended rebel MP Rachael Maskell: ‘If Labour doesn’t change, I fear where this country is headed’
Politics

Suspended rebel MP Rachael Maskell: ‘If Labour doesn’t change, I fear where this country is headed’

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?
Disability benefits

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’
Disability benefits

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’

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

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’
Disability benefits

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’
Disability benefits

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote
Disability benefits

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote

It never crossed my mind I might need disability benefits. Now I don’t know where I’d be without PIP
Disability benefits

It never crossed my mind I might need disability benefits. Now I don’t know where I’d be without PIP

I’m a Labour MP and this is why I still can’t support the government’s disability benefits cuts
Cat Eccles MP

I’m a Labour MP and this is why I still can’t support the government’s disability benefits cuts

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?
Disability benefits

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless
Disability benefits

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love
Disability benefits

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love

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Revealed: Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn’s at risk of cuts
Disability benefits

Revealed: Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn’s at risk of cuts

Could the government’s disability benefit cuts be blocked by Labour MPs?
Disability benefits

Could the government’s disability benefit cuts be blocked by Labour MPs?

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families

‘I was barely existing before PIP’: Benefit claimants say they’re ‘terrified’ of Labour’s cuts
Disability benefits

‘I was barely existing before PIP’: Benefit claimants say they’re ‘terrified’ of Labour’s cuts