Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work
Many of the measures already implemented to reduce government spending have actually pushed people further away from the ...
Labour urged to crack down on ‘discriminatory’ guarantor rules which lock renters out
The signatories do not call on the government to scrap guarantors entirely. Instead they ask Labour rules out demands for a ...
Benefits demand could be linked to worsening ‘deaths of despair’ new study finds
A new report found a ‘strong link' between these deaths, mental health and the potential demand on the welfare system ...
'Trust me, if Labour cuts PIP, it'll have blood on its hands'
Labour's drive to boost employment could prevent disability benefit claimants like Helen from staying in work.
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Mental Health Decline Drives Rise in Deaths and Disability: Report
A report highlighted a sharp rise in mental health problems across the United Kingdom, with growing pressure on NHS services and an increasing disability benefits bill.
All the potential changes coming to PIP and Universal Credit in March
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 900,000 children live in a household where someone receives sickness benefits though ...
DWP benefits cuts could be scrapped after Rachel Reeves given another option
The Department for Work and Pensions' planned cuts could be SCRAPPED by the Labour Party government as Chancellor Rachel ...
DWP forces 'hundreds of thousands to pay back benefits due to its own mistakes'
The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to stop forcing people to pay back benefits which were overpaid due to ...
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Research links increase in ill-health to rising benefit claims, just as government prepares ‘catastrophic’ cuts
New research links a significant rise in sickness and mental ill-health since the start of the pandemic to an increase in the ...
Starmer says welfare system indefensible on ‘moral’ terms amid backlash
The Prime Minister denied Britain would be ‘returning to austerity’ under the changes but said the cost of benefits was ...
Housing Benefit freeze and Local Housing Allowance rate 2025
The Housing Benefit freeze will ne a real terms cut, that will see tenants struggling to pay rents, say experts ...
The DWP forced over 680,000 people to pay for its own mistakes. Now campaigners want the law changed
The legal charity has helped several claimants win back thousands from the DWP in unfair overpayment cases. Alongside 30 other leading charities, it has now written to work and pensions secretary Liz ...