The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has dropped his first hints on how he plans to approach social security reform, while also pledging to “end rough sleeping”, in a speech outside 10 Downing ...

The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has ...

The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to correct figures in its annual report that hugely underestimate the number of disabled benefit claimants who had their claims closed as ...

A “milestone” report by the care watchdog has found “systemic weaknesses” in the way some local authorities across England ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal ...

The government has laid out its next steps – and published new research – on addressing the pay discrimination faced by ...

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms ...

A newly-nationalised rail company desperately tried to settle three separate cases of discrimination taken against it by a ...

The minister leading the review into personal independence payment (PIP) has told fellow MPs that there “may well be ...

Disabled members of Your Party, the troubled new grassroots socialist party, are hoping a commission will develop a series of disability policies based on the “real life experience” of “normal, ...

Food insecurity* is a “widespread, severe, and systemic” issue for disabled people, with rising food costs a “significant” challenge, according to evidence submitted to an inquiry just as the ...