Tag: universal credit

The Tories hold a five-point lead over Labour in a recent poll conducted after the Budget.

The effect of Rishi Sunak's budget has potentially become clear. Several think tanks have calculated that despite measures around things ...

Rishi Sunak's autumn budget made no mention of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) until the end. And when ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is potentially facing another court case. It's once more over Universal Credit. The ...

Home Office minister Damian Hinds has given an outrageous excuse for Boris Johnson jetting off on a luxury holiday to ...

As the 2021 Conservative Party conference drew to a close, it coincided with rocketing gas prices and a notable rise ...

On 6 October, footage emerged of secretary of state for work and pensions Thérèse Coffey singing 'The Time of My ...

Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) said members were supporting “ever-increasing” numbers of people unable to afford food.

One woman said she will now be under pressure to ‘stretch myself thin to find more work’.

Half of people claiming Universal Credit (UC) were living in food insecurity even before being hit by the removal of ...

A legal case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been delayed. The court claims it's due to ...

The move has been widely condemned by charities and opposition parties.

For the second time in a week, disabled people took to the streets over the Tories' treatment of social security ...

As the furlough scheme ends, workers are afraid. The furlough scheme was meant to support those whose jobs were affected ...

Disabled people brought central London to a standstill on Tuesday 28 September. They were protesting over the Tories' cut to ...

The Scottish Labour leader will urge ministers at Holyrood to use their powers to boost the payment.