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

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

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 ...

Personal independence payment (PIP) is increasingly vital to disabled people to fill in the gaps caused by cuts to services, but there are “deep-rooted” problems with how it is delivered, an ...

Disabled members of Your Party, the troubled new grassroots socialist party, are hoping a commission will develop a series of disability policies based on the “real life experience” of “normal, ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed for years to comply with its legal duties under the Equality Act by refusing to provide an accessible way for many disabled people to communicate with ...

The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MPs.

A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up ...

The failure of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the ...