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Cost of living crisis

'It makes me want to scream': PIP changes could be 'tragic' for disabled people, DWP warned
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Disability benefits

'It makes me want to scream': PIP changes could be 'tragic' for disabled people, DWP warned

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you're eligible
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Benefits

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you're eligible

'People need aid, not criminalisation': Sadiq Khan's comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate
Crime

'People need aid, not criminalisation': Sadiq Khan's comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'
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Disability rights

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'

'It's evil what they're doing': DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
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Benefits

'It's evil what they're doing': DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness

DWP risks repeat of Post Office scandal with plan to snoop on claimants' bank accounts, MPs warn
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Benefits

DWP risks repeat of Post Office scandal with plan to snoop on claimants' bank accounts, MPs warn

Emmerdale star Alexander Lincoln: 'When people lose their house, they can lose their humanity'
Homelessness

Emmerdale star Alexander Lincoln: 'When people lose their house, they can lose their humanity'

Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy
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Ultra-processed food is often blamed for obesity – but we should be looking at government policy

'It's a choice between dinner and devices': Millions of children held back by digital poverty
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Exclusive

'It's a choice between dinner and devices': Millions of children held back by digital poverty

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person
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Benefits

Millions missing out on £23billion in unclaimed DWP benefits – an average of £2,700 per person

Renters being forced to move house costs £550m per year: 'I'm always in fight or flight'
renters are paying half a billion pounds for unwanted house moves
RENTING

Renters being forced to move house costs £550m per year: 'I'm always in fight or flight'

DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts
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Benefits

DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts

Rishi Sunak is celebrating UK's inflation fall – there's just several problems
Inflation

Rishi Sunak is celebrating UK's inflation fall – there's just several problems

Liz Truss blames the 'deep state' and the 'establishment' for her downfall. Here's why she's wrong
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Politics

Liz Truss blames the 'deep state' and the 'establishment' for her downfall. Here's why she's wrong

Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening 'harsh' disability benefits system, experts warn
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Benefits

Long-term sickness cannot be fixed by tightening 'harsh' disability benefits system, experts warn

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'
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Universal credit

Millions of families on universal credit worse off by £1,400 a year, experts say: 'It needs to change'

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'
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Pensions

Taking an earlier, smaller state pension could see pensioners 'suffer for rest of their lives'

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here's when you will get the higher amount
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Benefits

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here's when you will get the higher amount

Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt
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Benefits

Government must fix council tax benefits, charity says, as millions pushed into debt

DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'
Benefits

DWP shamed over 'cruel' two-child benefit cap as millions trapped in poverty: 'Scrap this sibling tax'