Work and Pensions Secretary brands Ken Loach’s film ‘monstrously unfair’, spectacularly missing the point
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green has accused Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winning film I, Daniel Blake of being "monstrously ...
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)
The DWP has been forced to reveal how it manipulated the media to silence criticism of welfare cuts
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to release internal reports detailing the way it manipulated media ...
The real Daniel Blake: the shocking true stories behind the Tory attacks on welfare
The film I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, premiered in London on Tuesday 18 October. And while the movie ...
A charity thinks it can fix the DWP’s awful track record on mental health, but the jury’s out
A staff member of mental health charity Mind is being seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for ...
While all eyes are on the conference, the Tories have sneaked out a plan to punish pensioners
The Conservative government has quietly confirmed plans to slash benefits for penniless pensioners, according to The Independent. The measure, dubbed ...
Tories to introduce negative-hours contracts
The Department for Work and Pensions (a.k.a. DWP/Dangerous Work Pricks) has announced that it will henceforth be allowing employers to ...
The Tories aren’t persecuting the poor out of spite, it’s even worse than that
An extraordinary report by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has laid bare the real reason why the Conservative government ...
A DWP worker calls a mum of three a ‘scrounging b*stard’ in leaked answerphone message [AUDIO]
A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff member is under investigation this week after she left an answerphone message ...
EXPOSED: the companies profiting from forced labour in the UK
A shocking Freedom of Information (FOI) request has finally revealed the organisations who profited from free, forced labour in the ...
This disabled man was forced to abandon his job due to benefit cuts
A disabled man will be forced to quit his job because the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has decided ...
Damning proof that ‘austerity’ is killing people, and leading people to kill themselves
EDITORIAL It has been revealed that benefit sanctions (that is, the removal of state financial support) against people with mental ...
IDS’ past actions are coming back to haunt him, as a potential investigation is revealed
Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling are facing a possible criminal investigation by police in Scotland, after disability activists accused them ...
Companies are shamelessly praising workfare and benefit sanctions on #esday16
On 15 April 2016, organisations which deliver 'employment-related services' launched the first national 'UK Employability Day'. On this day, they opened their doors to show others ...
When IDS quits his job he doesn’t get sanctioned, he gets this instead
When Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary, he became eligible for a hefty severance package. If he ...
UK government launches dangerous new welfare sting operation in GP surgeries
This piece originally appeared on LSE Blogs, and has been republished here with permission to its author, Elizabeth Cotton. The ...
DWP tribunal sanctions Labour MP for showing ‘too much humanity’ to a constituent
A Labour MP has received formal criticism from a Department of Work and Pensions benefits tribunal for showing too much ...
This is the sickening wedding ‘gift’ the UK government just gave a dying woman
A newly-wed woman dying of a terminal illness returned home from honeymoon to a sickening 'gift' from the Conservative government. ...
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