Announcing the start of the consultation on Monday, social security and disability minister, Sir Stephen Timms said: “We ...

A Dorset MP is warning that cuts to welfare announced in the spring statement would be "making poor people poorer". Updating ...

Government insiders fear benefits will need to be slashed again after ministers "blew their one big shot" to fix Britain's ...

Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith ...

Labour’s recently announced cuts to welfare spending may be much more severe than the government is claiming, several experts ...

The area with the highest proportion of people claiming health-related benefits is Liverpool Walton, at 20.3 per cent of the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...

WELFARE cuts dominated First Minister’s Questions today as Senedd members queued up to call for transparency and condemned ...

Typically, they face more pressure and exploitation, longer hours, higher prices or charges, they get less state support and face greater discrimination all as part of the war effort. Or, more ...

An MP has criticised the welfare cuts proposed in the Labour government's Spring Statement, arguing that the changes will hit the most ...

Senedd members criticised Westminster’s “short-sighted, immoral and unethical” plans to slash spending on welfare by £4.8bn a year by the end of the decade. Sioned Williams said she was extremely ...

Labour councillors in Wakefield have publicly opposed government plans to make cuts to the benefit system. The authority’s ...