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The rise could be limited to around 7.8% rather than an 8.5% increase in line with average earnings.

In today’s newsletter: As the Department of Work and Pensions looks to ‘tighten’ work capability assessments, we look at the impact of a decade of welfare policies

Campaigners say move could lead to many disabled people having to seek work when they are not well enough

GET out the sunscreen and put the fizz on ice — summer is back for a final flourish. Temperatures today are forecast to hit 32 degrees, and if they nudge just a little higher it will be a record for the year. Londoners are flocking to the parts of the…

Disability charities have warned the changes could cause ‘huge anxiety’ and force people into work when they are not well enough

Those with history of self-harm could face penalties if they do not seek work after change in categorisation

Changes to Work Capability Assessments would help people ‘move off benefits and towards the jobs market’, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said.

MINISTERS are planning to force disabled people into the workforce with plans to encourage working from home for people previously deemed too ill to…

The over-55s account for biggest rise in trainee teachers in England, with a 75% increase in applications

As the pandemic subsides, people aged 50 to 64 are ‘unretiring’ – either through choice or necessity

Although for decades he was greeted by cries of “on your bike” wherever he went, Norman Tebbit never told anyone to get on a bike, said John Elledge in The New Statesman. He merely recalled, at the Tory conference in 1981, that during the Depression, his father had pedalled around…