All news on the topic: Universal Credit

If you were due to receive a benefit normally on Good Friday or Easter Monday, then it is likely you would have been paid today instead as this is the last working day before Easter

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

It seems like pretty much everything is set to get a little bit more expensive in April which makes it very hard to long for the Spring, Mirror Money has compiled a full list of the confirmed rises, alongside the speculated

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 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

Seven in ten children from families on Universal Credit are not eligible for free school meals because they earn more than £7,400 a year after tax, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned

A third of employed adults are living payslip to payslip - and think they would struggle to afford food and utilities if they found themselves unemployed

Paris Cambridge, and her family from Seacroft, Leeds, have been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis like countless Brits, and left desperately asking what she can do when her family are down to her 'last tenner'

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 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

Hunt told parliament on Wednesday that he was delivering a budget for "growth" and a lot of measures aimed to get people back into work

The Help to Save scheme was set to end in September this year but will now be open until April 2025

The Chancellor has pre-announced a series of key measures which aim to boost the UK workforce, which he argues will encourage growth that could allow for tax cuts later on

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

If you’re due a benefit payment on one of the two Easter bank holiday days, you may find you get paid on a different date - here is everything you need to know

Joint research released today by the Trussell Trust and Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that the standard allowance is £35 too low for a single person and £66 for a couple

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said around 825,000 people could miss out on the payments because they earn "slightly" more than what you can to get Universal Credit

The £900 Cost of Living payment will be paid to around eight million households who are claiming benefits with the first instalment wroth £301 will be paid at some point this Spring

Three estimates that around 4.2million people across the UK could be eligible to sign up for its new social tariff which costs only £12 a month and offers unlimited data, calls and texts, and 5G

The DWP mistakenly told the mum of two that her Universal Credit payments were accurate multiple times and due to this, the High Court ruled that the claimant did not need to pay over £8,000 back

Currently, those on Universal Credit looking for work usually meet work coaches once a week for the first three months, then every two weeks after this point however the DWP may introduce new rules which will change this

Anna Morell asks when will the Tories begin to listen and stop the bone-exposing cuts that are leading to actual loss of life, as the Government spends a small fortune on trying to deliberately put poor disabled people back in their box

Joe Hemming was sacked from his job at East Midlands Ambulance Service after restraining a patient he says was intoxicated and about to punch him inside his ambulance

It comes after a court ruled in favour of two severely disabled men, who argued they were left hundreds of pounds out of pocket after their benefits were changed

A single mum-of-four has shared her three best tips to slashing her food bill. Kimberley Shannon has managed to get her monthly food bill down to £121 using the easy budgeting method