All news on the topic: Department for Work and Pensions

The DWP says the extension of the Support for Mortgage Interest loan will now a further 200,000 people with the rising cost of housing

WASPI estimated women lost up to £50,000 from their state pension after the hike to retirement age for women, and campaigners are battling for compensation for those affected by the move

Claire Thomas, from Merthyr Tydfil, claimed she was limited in how much she could walk after the crash but was later found hiking waterfalls and jetting off on holidays

A payment of £150 is planned to be given this summer to those on disability benefits and one was given to this group of people last September to help with the rising cost of living

The state pension age is due to rise to 68 from 2044, but reports earlier this year suggested ministers wanted to bring that forward - potentially as early as 2035

Around two million people still claim "legacy benefits" in the UK which include benefits such as working tax credit, income support, income-based job seekers allowance (JSA), and housing benefit

The DWP says the online application service is currently only being offered to 60 new claimants each day who call the PIP phone line to start their application

The first Cost of Living payment will land in those who are eligible's bank accounts from April 25 and the money should arrive by May 17

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride was unable to answer basic questions from MPs including whether he knew the average amount a person loses when they are sanctioned

As confirmed in the Chancellor's Autumn statement last year, benefits, payments and the state pension will rise by 10.1% from April

The new cost of living support payments are worth £1,350 overall and will go out to millions of households in the next financial year, starting from April

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced the £301 will be sent to eligible households between April 25 and May 17, with the qualifying window also confirmed

A document supplied by the DWP to an appeal Tribunal last year reveals there are "low hundreds of thousands" of older married women the Government has "no plans" to contact.

The Government intends to use Personal Independence Payments, a benefit designed to help us cover extra living costs as Disabled people, as the passport for additional Universal Credit money

Figures released by the DWP today showed that 46,716 state pensioners have been identified as having underpayments to their state pension, with £300million paid to by those affected

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the Spring Budget that the sanctions would be applied “more rigorously” to those who fail to meet strict work-search requirements or choose not to take up a reasonable job offer

The Government has not yet confirmed the exact payment dates for Cost of Living payments but has said that the first £301 instalment will be made in the spring of 2023

The demand from the IPPR think-tank comes a week after the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned in the Budget that the Tory Government would apply benefit sanctions more 'rigorously'

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it is extending the “Help to Claim” scheme with an extra £22million investment to keep the scheme going

PIP is given to those with long-term mental or physical health problems or disabilities and around three million people currently claim it in the UK

Jodey Whiting died in February 2017 after her disability benefit was stopped. Her mother Joy Dove took her fight for a new inquest to the Court of Appeal - and it has now been granted

Between April 2022 and February 2023, the DWP made payments to over 4,000 people which equates to

Emmanuel Bay, 68, and Nancy Bay, 67, from Brixton, south London, fraudulently received £1 million in disability benefits between 1999 and 2018 and bought five properties

Lost National Insurance credits can mean people could get less state pension when they retire or they could waste money buying top-ups they don't need

There is such deep rooted systemic inequality when it comes to how Disabled people are treated in this country that this is not news to Disabled people. And it is forgettable or ignorable news to most non-disabled people