Universal Credit’s standard allowance will get the “biggest permanent boost” if the Welfare Bill successfully makes it ...

Labour’s welfare reform has completed the next stage of its passage through Parliament, bringing benefit claimants closer to ...

The rising number of families hit by the welfare cap increases pressure on the Government to act - with many Labour MPs against the policy ...

Some 47 backbenchers rebelled against the changes, even though the PM had already caved in on all the key elements.

The DWP has confirmed it will be increasing the Universal Credit standard allowance above inflation for the next four years - ...

Minister for Employment, Alison McGovern, set out the plans in a written response to Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald ...

CHECKING her bank balance Emily Cutter couldn’t help but smile. Her first Universal Credit payment of almost £1500 had landed in her account and she was off to buy a celebratory bottle of bubbles.

Ensuring that all existing recipients of the Universal Credit health element - and any new claimant meeting the Severe Conditions Criteria and/or that has their claims considered under the Special ...

Debt experts have explained the urgent action you need to take immediately after MPs passed a bill to reform the benefits ...

The government is failing to listen to young people with disabilities in shaping welfare reforms, a Shropshire teenager has ...

A proposed benefit cut for future out-of-work claimants has cleared the Commons after Labour ministers saw off a backbench ...

The Universal Credit standard allowance will permanently rise above inflation, amounting to £725 by 2029/30 in cash terms for ...