Only 200 old age pensioners have voluntarily stopped their winter fuel payment in the last decade, the Sun reports. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has made several appeals for wealthy pensioners to hand back the money, which David Cameron has protected from welfare cuts. But figures obtained under the Freedom...
The number of people applying for emergency handouts to meet the costs of their rent ...
Fresh fears have arisen over the Government's universal credit scheme after pilot pro...
Medical assessments for disability benefits claimants are “cruel” and distort medical...
The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted taking action against jobcentres wh...
Nigel Mills said he had seen ATOS assesments that were "clearly wrong" from his own assesments. "Clearly in my constituency casework I have people coming to me re...
Dame Anne Begg said the system of assessing disability benefit claimants was like a “treadmill” people could not escape. “We’re still seeing about 40% of the deci...
Tom Greatrex said disability benefit assessments were “crude” and caused distress, responding to comments by a doctor who worked for assessment contractor Atos....
SNP press release New polling by Age Scotland’s sister charity Age UK, has revealed that 93 per cent of older people in England who own a concessionary bus pass s...
CIPD press release Commenting on today's Labour Market Statistics (for the period January-March 2013) released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), Gerwyn D...
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