Benefit payments many change this month as the DWP has confirmed payment dates for people who receive Personal Independence ...

Universal Credit claims have surged over the past year with more than three million individuals applying for health-related ...

The Department for Work and Pensions will abolish Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance by April 2026, urging claimants to ...

The government has announced an above inflation boost to the standard allowance of Universal Credit – working out at an extra ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published proposed new payment rates for State Pension and benefits for ...

Delivering the new rates to parliament, the work and pensions minister Pat McFadden said: “I have concluded my statutory annual review of state pension and benefit rates under the Social Security ...

Those who have limited capability for work and work-related activity do qualify for the universal credit health element, as ...

The unemployment rate in the UK has gone up again, according to recently released figures. Unemployment rose by 4.4% in the ...

The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) has announced that all Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants who fail ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced nearly four million households will see an annual income boost estimated to be worth £725 after a Bill to overhaul the welfare system received ...

A number of changes are set to affect Universal Credit from next year. As part of them, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed that nearly four million households are set to receive ...

We created a social security system in this country to protect people from hunger and hardship. What that’s looked like across the decades has taken many forms, and when universal credit – one of the ...