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Bereavement benefits to be extended to unmarried couples with children
Support extended to parents who were not married or in a civil partnership when their partner passed away.
Average salaries fall despite cost of living crisis
Concern over falling salaries during the cost of living crisis.
Cold homes kill over a thousand people as families struggle to stay warm
Cold damp homes blamed for excess winter deaths.
Struggling family carers providing increasing hours of care for sick and disabled relatives
ONS figures suggest that the number of people providing 20 or more hours of unpaid care is increasing.
Citizens Advice reports 150,000 rise in number of people needing crisis support
Support includes referrals to food banks and charitable grants.
DWP join with SKY to offer cheap broadband to people on benefits
New DWP scheme makes it easier for low-income families to sign up to discounted broadband.
One energy prepayment-meter customer cut off every ten seconds
Nearly one in five homes that ran out of credit last year spent two or more days in the dark and cold.
Shocking 74% rise in number of homeless people in temporary accommodation
There are at least 271,000 homeless individuals in England.
Give terminally ill early access to their state pension, urges charity
Allowing people with a terminal illness early access to their state pension could lift thousands out of poverty.
Labour vow to transform ‘stressful’ welfare system
Proposals include changes to "arduous, lengthy and stressful" benefit assessments.
Benefits uprating wiped out by DWP deductions
Over half of all Universal Credit households are subject to deductions.
Fifteen minute care visits ‘rarely enough’, says Ombudsman
Councils must ensure any care visits they arrange give enough time for care workers to do their job properly.
DWP announce more details on next round of cost of living payments
Campaigners say announcement amounts to a cut in the support available to households in fuel poverty next winter.
Nine Million UK Adults Forced To Live In ‘Dickension Conditions’ This Winter
Millions of people in the UK are living in cold damp homes, according to new research.
Thousands of families on Universal Credit face 80% tax deduction
Increasing numbers of families on benefits will face effective tax rates of at least 80% in 2019, research suggests.
Universal Credit childcare costs preventing parents from working, say MPs
The UK has one of the most costly child-care systems in the world.
107,000 families hit by ‘cruel’ benefit cap as winter bites and energy prices soar
UK government urged to scrap benefit cap and two-child limit policies.