While we were all watching Labour, the government quietly snuck out plans for NEW spending cuts
On Monday 27 February, the Treasury quietly ordered government departments to find new ways to cut up to 6% off their budgets. ...
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)
This is the news Theresa May sneaked through while the media obsessed over Labour infighting
While the media obsessed over by-elections and Labour infighting, the government used the opportunity to bury some news it would ...
Woman with no hands had her benefits stopped because she couldn’t open a letter [VIDEO]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped a woman's benefits for not attending an appointment. Even though she couldn't ...
Woman who can’t read, write, walk or talk ‘declared fit for work’ by DWP
A 26-year-old woman with a severe disability recently had her benefit payments stopped. Her name is Georgina Ball. And she ...
DWP-approved assessors are accused of lying to stop disabled people from getting the support they need
On 19 January, The Canary reported on the tragic story of Lawrence Bond — the man who died on the way home ...
While May schmoozes with Trump in the US, her government sneaks through devastating cuts back home
While Theresa May schmoozes with new US President Donald Trump, her government is rolling out a controversial scheme across the ...
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Ken Loach and John McDonnell come together to slam the Tories’ ‘brutal’ welfare regime [VIDEO]
Ken Loach and John McDonnell came together on Wednesday 25 January to slam the Conservative government. In Kentish Town, the ...
Man spends last day alive at a Jobcentre being told he’s ‘fit to work’. He dies on the way home
A man collapsed and died in the street on the way home from the Jobcentre on 12 December. He had ...
Families left with just FIFTY PENCE for rent after merciless Tory cuts
Many families have just 50p to pay their rent, thanks to government cuts. The shocking statistics come as rental prices are ...
Ken Loach just dropped a truth bomb on the BBC, over the cruellest of government policies
Ken Loach gave a searing interview on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 4 January. He left presenter Evan Davis holding a ...
The DWP got some unwanted Christmas presents, as more shocking stories were exposed
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was repeatedly under the spotlight over the Christmas period. After a year of controversy ...
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A teenager desperately seeking work killed himself, this Tory MP’s response is disgraceful [VIDEO]
An 18-year-old desperately seeking work died by suicide after being "belittled" by Jobcentre Plus staff, his inquest was told. The ...
Theresa May is launching a fresh attack on the poor – and Scotland is the ‘guinea pig’
Theresa May's Conservative government is launching a fresh attack on some of the poorest people in society. The government is trying ...
It’s official: the government has been wrecking people’s lives for no reason at all
One of the government's key policies has come under attack from the body that scrutinises public spending. A new report from ...
I, Daniel Blake just got real for the DWP – and it’s about to get real for millions more of us too
The film I, Daniel Blake just got very real for one Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) office. But an ...
While everyone’s focused on the Autumn Statement, the Tories’ universal credit scheme has gone seriously wrong
The Conservative government's controversial universal credit scheme may face an investigation. Great Yarmouth Borough Council has called for the probe ...
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Theresa May suffers another humiliating defeat, as her own MPs turn on her
Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat on Thursday 17 November, as her own MPs turned against her and voted with ...
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