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 ...

Transport Accessibility campaigners have warned that the Labour government’s new integrated transport strategy “doesn’t deal with the real issue” and needs to demonstrate more than “warm words”. The ...

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 ...

A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the probability of them ...

A long-running legal case that reached the Court of Appeal this week will force the government to take its duty to consult with disabled people more seriously, according to one of the three disabled ...

A widower has said he will never forgive the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for its failings in dealing with his wife’s disability benefits, after an ombudsman ruled those failures were a ...