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Government has aggressively pursued sanctions despite its own 2020 report showing they are ineffective at getting people into jobsBenefit sanctions slow down claimants’ progress into work and are likely to force them into taking lower-paying jobs that …
Welfare secretary says he will not appeal against ruling ordering DWP to release studyMinisters have backed down over a refusal to publish “sensitive” internal government research into the effectiveness of benefit sanctions that has been kept under wra…
One-fifth of UK population was in relative poverty after first year of pandemic, when support measures scrappedFamilies including 800,000 children were forced to turn to food banks to feed themselves as poverty levels started to rise again after the fi…
Jodey Whiting of Stockton-on-Tees died in 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped The mother of Jodey Whiting, a housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut, has won an appeal for a fresh inquest.Whiti…
Internal study was commissioned in 2019 over concerns that sanctions have negative effect on claimants’ health and financesThe Department for Work and Pensions has been ordered to release “sensitive” research into whether fining benefit claimants is ef…
Lib Dems say levelling-up secretary is ‘living in a different century’ with the proposalMichael Gove has suggested that parents who fail to ensure their children attend school regularly could have their child benefit payments stopped.Gove has argued su…
Exclusive: research shows universal credit allowance far below cost of food, energy and essentials‘It’s dehumanising’: the food bank volunteer living on the breadlineThe UK’s leading poverty charities have called for a change in the law to fix the UK’s…
Charities say figure of £120 a week – at least £35 more than universal credit allowance – is at stringent end of spectrumHow much is just enough to get by? According to new research, it is £120 a week. After housing costs, that is the bare minimum requ…
Ben says he is ‘fairly privileged’, as for many it is no longer a question of heating or eating because they cannot afford eitherBring benefits into line with minimum living costs, UK charities urgeWhen you are on the breadline there’s always this fear…
Gangs among those buying up cheap houses and claiming housing benefit for vulnerable people who do not live there, police sayRogue landlords are conning the government out of millions of pounds by fraudulently claiming housing benefits for so-called “g…