New legislation has come in with a raft of new anti-fraud powers, including bank account checks to verify the eligibility of ...

Delivering the new rates to parliament, the work and pensions minister Pat McFadden said: “I have concluded my statutory ...

The number of people claiming universal credit has risen by more than a million in a year, up to over 8 million, new figures show. (PA) The number of people claiming universal credit (UC) has risen by ...

The DWP is sending letters to some benefit claimants with jsut a few months left to switch to Universal Credit or lose ...

The DWP has explained how it uses bank account information to check the eligibility of those on benefits. The department has ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to fully replace two benefits this year, replacing them entirely with ...

Millions of benefits and state pension claimants will see their payments increase this year.

Senior officials from the department were grilled by MPs ...

Here is more information about the upcoming changes to Universal Credit, who will be affected and what the new announcements will mean for claimants ...

8.4million people now claim Universal Credit after the biggest increase since 2020 ...