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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed for years to comply with its legal duties under the Equality Act by refusing to provide an accessible way for many disabled people to communicate with ...

The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MPs.

A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up ...

The failure of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the ...