It only took one sentence for the BBC’s Justin Webb to tear the government’s new rough sleeping plan to shreds
On 13 August, the government announced a new funding boost in its plan to end rough sleeping in England by 2027. ...
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)
New figures expose the shocking way the DWP is screwing over Universal Credit claimants
New figures reveal that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is taking money from a third of people claiming ...
A Scottish councillor explains why she’s ditched the Conservatives, and it’s not good news for the DWP
On 9 August, a councillor at Edinburgh City Council tweeted a scathing statement attacking the Conservatives. She said she had left ...
The director general of Universal Credit is facing a massive backlash for his defence of the DWP’s flagship policy
The director general of Universal Credit - the flagship policy of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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