Tag: universal credit

A doctor shared his experience of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Twitter. But he may not have ...

Rishi Sunak just made perhaps the most damning admission of the 2021 Budget. His comment was about the £20 a ...

Rishi Sunak just showed his contempt for sick and disabled people. Because his Budget contained no extra support for countless ...

Rishi Sunak and the Treasury just refused to listen to sick and disabled people. Because a campaign group tried to ...

The chancellor is set to publish the 2021 budget on 3 March, setting out the next phase of economic measures ...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare cuts have had a "direct" and "negative" impact on people's mental and physical ...

There were 4.5 million claims for the benefit between March 13 2020 and January 14 2021, according to the Department ...

The number of households living in destitution has more than doubled in 2020. That's according to new research. It shows ...

The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) Universal Credit is under the microscope again. This time, a survey of claimants ...

New research has plunged Universal Credit into further chaos. It involves the debate around the £20 a week uplift. A ...

The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford has called for the Government to make the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit permanent.

Campaigners have thrust the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into the spotlight again. Because on Saturday 6 February, Universal ...

The children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned that if the government fails to take urgent action, one in ...

Nichola Salvato, 49, a single mother from Brighton, has won a legal challenge over the DWP’s ‘proof of payment’ policy.

Calls have increased to keep the uplift in Universal Credit, amid predictions of a downturn in living standards during 2021. ...

There's a crescendo in the chaos around the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Because parliament is about to debate ...

In a letter, work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey may as well have stuck two fingers up at the poorest ...