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A petition had gathered more than 34,000 signatures

DWP statistics reveal most common physical and mental disabilities among UK claimants

A trial found the DWP had discriminated against two claimants who had been left out of pocket

DWP estimates nearly one million pensioner households could be entitled to the passport benefit.

The Government has extended the eligibility criteria for Bereavement Support Payments and Widowed Parent’s Allowance - check if you can make a claim

Letters: If Jeremy Hunt wants the ‘economically inactive’ back in the workplace, they must be offered proper support, say readers in response to an article by Frances Ryan

Three North East sites are among the first 20 temporarily set up during pandemic to close their doors for good

Campaign groups have been lobbying for a change in the law

Anna Morell asks when will the Tories begin to listen and stop the bone-exposing cuts that are leading to actual loss of life, as the Government spends a small fortune on trying to deliberately put poor disabled people back in their box