Universal Credit

The Tories have instructed lawyers to fight the release of documents showing the impact of a cut to Universal Credit ahead of the General Election. It comes after the Information Commissioners' Office last month ruled in favour of The…

Keir Starmer has told Rishi Sunak to publish a secret analysis showing the impact of Covid-era cut to benefits ahead of the General Election.As Chancellor, the PM ignored campaigners' warnings by scrapping a £20-per-week uplift to…

A pensioner was forced into £3,000 debt after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cut his Universal Credit payment to just £1.88 a month.Daniel Walsh, 74, who had a joint Universal Credit claim with his wife Esperanza, 48, told the…

The full rollout of Universal Credit will price not less than £900million extra and take six years longer than beforehand estimated, in keeping with the general public spending watchdog. New figures launched by the National Audit Office at…

A bunch of celebrities together with Stephen Fry, Ed Sheeran, and Liam Gallagher, have signed an open letter to politicians – to extend the essential price of Universal Credit, to carry it in keeping with the price of life's necessities.It…

Rishi Sunak has threatened to grab money from households on Universal Credit to pay for tax cuts.The PM hinted that pre-election tax minimize giveaways might be made on the again of "difficult decisions to control welfare". He boasted the…

The financial institution accounts of hundreds of thousands of advantages claimants are set to be scrutinised. This will deal with two forms of fraud inside 4 totally different advantages, in accordance with a minister, which means round…

A mum who says she is pressured to eat her daughter's leftover meals to outlive has hit out at Jeremy Hunt's autumn assertion.Alongside a 6.7% rise in Universal Credit, the chancellor introduced this week that welfare recipients who don't…

There's simply no getting away from the truth that thousands and thousands of us did not do too nicely in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement, with grim evaluation exhibiting households might be £1,900 worse off on common by the top…

Tory ministers will snatch tens of millions of kilos from their very own constituents if Jeremy Hunt goes forward with a threatened raid on Universal Credit.The Chancellor needs to slash the quantities given to strange households to pay for…