The DWP spent almost half a million pounds defending its "unlawful" consultation into plans to cut billions from disability ...

MPs have urged the DWP to be mindful of how it reforms benefit assessment rules after previous changes were ruled to be ...

Many more PIP, ESA and Universal Credit claimants are expected to be told to go to work under the Government's upcoming ...

The government is set to announce a major overhaul of disability and incapacity benefits this spring, with a focus on ...

Many more benefit claimants - including those receiving Universal Credit, PIP and ESA - will be expected to go to work under ...

The DWP has published a study which, it claims, shows that a staggering 200,000 people claiming health and disability ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has come under fire for proposed changes to work assessments that campaigners say are ...

In their findings, the committee argued that work capability assessments are "not rigorous enough" and that a "lower level of conditionality" made it too easy to apply for them. However ...

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Labour is set to make major changes to the benefits system in 2025, building on its post-election comittment to “get Britain working.” Reforms to disability benefits appear to be at the heart of the ...

The DWP has been blasted after new figures showed it blew half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts.

The government says almost two-thirds of Universal Credit claimants aren't working and this figure is higher in some areas ...