The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has dropped his first hints on how he plans to approach social security reform, while also pledging to “end rough sleeping”, in a speech outside 10 Downing ...

The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has ...

Disabled campaigners have welcomed Andy Burnham’s first major policy decision – to temporarily scrap VAT on electricity bills – but say he must do much more to address disability poverty. In his ...

The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of ...

A “milestone” report by the care watchdog has found “systemic weaknesses” in the way some local authorities across England ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal ...

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms ...

The government has laid out its next steps – and published new research – on addressing the pay discrimination faced by ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to correct figures in its annual report that hugely underestimate the number of disabled benefit claimants who had their claims closed as ...

A newly-nationalised rail company desperately tried to settle three separate cases of discrimination taken against it by a ...

The minister leading the review into personal independence payment (PIP) has told fellow MPs that there “may well be ...

Disabled activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to appoint former work and pensions secretary James Purnell as his new chief of staff. Purnell, who ...