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Exclusive: Number of people receiving subsidised care has fallen far more quickly than the country’s disability rate, analysis findsNearly 100,000 adults have been denied government-funded social care because of a decade’s worth of spending cuts, a Gua…
ASA report finds many use negative stereotypes and highlights concerns about targeting of end-of-life services An elderly man fires off a tirade at a child who has asked “grandad” to return a mud-covered football that has landed on his gleaming car. He…
Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrolleesUS lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns and seeking inv…
Change means about 7.5 million pensioners in England and Wales who lost out on payment will have it restoredUK politics live – latest updatesAll pensioners with an income of £35,000 or less a year will have the winter fuel payment restored in full, Rac…
Conservative party leader calls for apology from Keir Starmer as Lib Dems also try to take credit for reversal of policyWinter fuel payments threshold to rise to £35,000The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are both trying to take credit for the …
Threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for payment will rise before winter, chancellor saysUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has confirmed that some winter fuel payments will be reinstated in time for this winter after week…
Threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for payment will rise before winter, chancellor saysUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has confirmed that some winter fuel payments will be reinstated in time for this winter after week…
Tory leader says PM should apologise to pensioners and asks how U-turn will be fundedReeves says her changes to the fiscal rules last year will make more investment possible.The decisions that we made in October mean that, for the first time, the Treas…
Defence secretary says ‘the world is more dangerous’ as he addresses MPs about strategic defence reviewHere is the clip of Keir Starmer in his Today programme interview refusing to say when the government will raise defence spending to 3% of GDP.In an …
Reform UK leader unveils plans to reverse benefit cuts and bring in tax breaks without fully explaining costingsNigel Farage has been accused of leaving a multibillion-pound black hole at the heart of his party’s spending plans after unveiling a series…