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DWP disability benefit cuts will impact 450,000 people – but very few will actually find paid work
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Benefits

DWP disability benefit cuts will impact 450,000 people – but very few will actually find paid work

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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible
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Benefits

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible

Lesbian Visibility Week: There’s ‘enormous power’ in being a lesbian – but stigma and shame persist
Lesbian Visibility Week

Lesbian Visibility Week: There’s ‘enormous power’ in being a lesbian – but stigma and shame persist

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Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’
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Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’

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Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: ‘Disabled voices should be heard’

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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible
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Benefits

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible

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Crime

‘People need aid, not criminalisation’: Sadiq Khan’s comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’
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Disability rights

Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’

‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
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Benefits

‘It’s evil what they’re doing’: DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness

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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible
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Benefits

DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you’re eligible

Thousands could be owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP payments. Here’s what you need to know
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Social Justice

Thousands could be owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP payments. Here’s what you need to know

Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over
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Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here’s when you will get the higher amount
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Benefits

DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here’s when you will get the higher amount

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Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Thousands could be owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP payments. Here’s what you need to know
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Social Justice

Thousands could be owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP payments. Here’s what you need to know

Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over
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Cost of living crisis

Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over

Parents can now get 15 hours free childcare for two-year-olds. Here’s how
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Cost of living crisis

Parents can now get 15 hours free childcare for two-year-olds. Here’s how

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DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?
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Sumi Rabindrakumar

DWP has the power to help people. Why is it choosing to threaten disabled people instead?

Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is ‘second most powerful country in the world’. That’s ‘hilarious propaganda’
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Bonkers Tory ad claims UK is ‘second most powerful country in the world’. That’s ‘hilarious propaganda’

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late
the household support fund
Sabine Goodwin

Jeremy Hunt’s last-minute household support fund reprieve is too little, too late

‘It’s not just wonky veg’: Meet the women using an ancient practice to help tackle food poverty
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‘It’s not just wonky veg’: Meet the women using an ancient practice to help tackle food poverty

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