DWP releases new “Easy Read” Guides to Universal Credit

In their pursuit of transparency, clarity and outreach, the Department for Work and Pensions have [...]

Briefing on Unemployment Benefits by Constituency

The Commons Library breifing that details changes in Unemployment Benefit Claims based on constituency has [...]

New Briefing on the Changes and Eventual Withdrawal of Crisis Social Security Measures

A Commons Library briefing has been released detailing the changes various government bodies made to [...]

DWP Set to End Payments into Post Office Card Accounts, Amongst Other Announcements

As part of Touchbase, a government newsletter designed to gather related announcements and make them [...]

DWP Issues Guidance Regarding Allowing SDP for UC Claimants

Following the removal of the Severe Disability Premium Gateway, which prevented claimants of Universal Credit [...]

Disability Benefits Consortium Publishes Their Report on Pandemic Poverty

The report focuses on the financial impact that Covid-19 has caused for those in receipt [...]

New APPG Report on Universal Credit’s £20 Uplift

“The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty aims to increase understanding of poverty among parliamentarians [...]

Updates to the Discretionary Housing Payments guidance manual

This guidance, made for local authorities in England and Wales, includes advice on how Discretionary [...]

Nearly half of benefit claimants are going without essentials

New data from Citizens Advice shows 49% of benefit claimants affected by the benefits freeze [...]

Two thirds of informal carers regularly fund care and support out of their own resources

New research released today by Carers UK, the leading membership charity for people caring unpaid [...]