A high court judge has slammed the justice secretary for ‘breaching judicial independence’
A high court judge has ruled that the Parole Board lacks “objective independence”. It comes after justice secretary David Gauke reportedly ...
Tag: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Canary articles on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), including benefits, pensions, free school meals, and social security like the Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
An inspiring activist has been deselected as a Labour council candidate simply ‘because she’s poor’
An inspiring activist says the Labour Party has deselected her from being a council candidate in Greater Manchester, due to ...
Channel 4 News exposed the DWP’s ‘hostile environment’ and people are piling in with their own horror stories
On 6 August, Channel 4 News focused on the stories of disability claimants forced to negotiate the horrors of the DWP's assessment ...
The DWP will pay out almost £2m after breaching thousands of people’s human rights
Correction: this article was updated at 13.10 on 10 August. It incorrectly stated that jobcentres no longer force unemployed people ...
Britain’s biggest food bank network just answered Esther McVey’s £200,000 question about austerity
The DWP is spending £217,000 on a study to determine whether government policies are contributing to the rise in demand ...
Esther McVey is spending over £200,000 on a study everyone already knows the answer to
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretary Esther McVey has once again proven how out of touch she is. ...
The DWP’s policies are now so hateful, the Scottish government’s been asked to make them instead
The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) policies have become so hateful that MPs have essentially told it to let ...
Labour is considering a radical policy that would turn the DWP on its head
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has revealed that Labour is considering piloting the radical policy of universal basic income (UBI) if ...
The DWP is ’empowering abusers’ through its incompetent changes to the benefit system
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is 'empowering abusers' through its incompetent changes to the benefits system. But it's ...
Esther McVey just insulted everyone in austerity-ravaged Britain
Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey just insulted millions more people. The damage she's wrought through the Department for Work ...
The DWP tried to hide its latest humiliation. A court just forced it to go public.
Update: This article was updated at 4.40pm on 1 August to include a statement from the DWP The Department for ...
The DWP just sneaked out a massive piece of ‘fake news’ on a Sunday morning
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced a 'major' policy shift on Sunday 29 July. But in reality, all ...
The DWP was just savaged in a ‘dossier of disgrace’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed in a report called 'A Dossier of Disgrace'. The document ...
The DWP has been accused of ‘covering up’ the scale of food bank use
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly said it does not hold records of, or research, the number ...
Actor Chris Addison has sent an open letter to Esther McVey, stepping up pressure for her to resign
Chris Addison - comedian, actor, and star of political comedy The Thick of It - has sent a powerful open letter ...
The DWP just revealed the eye-watering millions it paid out to private companies
On Thursday 26 July, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed the amount it paid out in June to ...
The government’s new benefits savings scheme is peak hypocrisy
The government is preparing to roll out a scheme for people on Universal Credit to "save" money. But what it ...
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