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Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it
keir starmer
Paul McNamee

Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it

The unpopular decision to take money from society's poorest is a lost opportunity for this government to show a little bravery
Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts
Working from home

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Disability benefits

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits
Benefits

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work
Big Issue Recruit

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Letters: We're all 'economically active' whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP
Letters

Letters: We're all 'economically active' whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'
Disability benefits

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'

DWP's benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an 'assault' on the 'disabled, sick and elderly'
A group of seven campaigners from Big Brother Watch stand outside Parliament to protest the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
Benefit fraud

DWP's benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an 'assault' on the 'disabled, sick and elderly'

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill
dwp's liz kendall
Disability benefits

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Disability benefits

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules

Letters: Disabled people shouldn't need to be Paralympians to have dignity
Letters

Letters: Disabled people shouldn't need to be Paralympians to have dignity

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer... How Gen Z must envy us!
Letters

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer... How Gen Z must envy us!

Labour has declared 'war on benefits'. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Catherine Parsons

Labour has declared 'war on benefits'. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
Stock image of a Job Centre Plus sign
Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

'Living is expensive': DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating
Chancellor Rachel Reeve standing at a podium and smiling
Winter fuel payment

'Living is expensive': DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: 'It's a political choice'
a view from above of an older person with white hair eating out of a pot
Winter fuel payment

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: 'It's a political choice'

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer
Winter fuel payment

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty

Letters: Disabled people live in constant fear we will lose our benefits – which we need to survive
Letters

Letters: Disabled people live in constant fear we will lose our benefits – which we need to survive

Letters: Is DWP about to go after disabled people daring to save money for their future funerals?
Letters

Letters: Is DWP about to go after disabled people daring to save money for their future funerals?

'It's an invasion of privacy': Single mum left 'mortified' after DWP scrutinises her bank account
leonie berman
Universal credit

'It's an invasion of privacy': Single mum left 'mortified' after DWP scrutinises her bank account

DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are 'smokescreen for cuts', disability activist says
dwp secretary liz kendall
Disability benefits

DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are 'smokescreen for cuts', disability activist says

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate
Mental health
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate

DWP plans to spy on claimants' bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Mikey Erhardt

DWP plans to spy on claimants' bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people

'My son lives without any joy': How DWP's two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
Keir Starmer during a Sky Sports interview at Emirates Stadium
Joseph Howes

'My son lives without any joy': How DWP's two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'
dwp
Universal credit

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'

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