A benefit period begins with an inpatient stay and ends after you’ve been out of the medical facility for at least 60 days. You’ll pay different amounts based on how long you’ve been staying ...

The government can't "shrug its shoulders" and pretend the welfare system is "progressive", Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he again defended his benefit cuts. The prime minister told Sky News ...

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The government’s plans for disability benefit cuts which will impact around one million people will have sharp knock-on effects, including for unpaid carers. Liz Kendall’s plans mean that in future, ...

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 600,000 children out of poverty in the next five years, analysis has found. Researchers at Action for Children have warned that separate plans to ...

Charles Gillies, of the Disability Benefit Consortium, warned more disabled people would be pushed into poverty. What other measures have been announced? Ms Kendall also announced a review of the ...

Among one of the most drastic changes announced by the Government today was changes to the eligibility for PIP which will result in fewer people being able to claim the benefit. While it won't ...

Approximately 7% of all benefit claimants are receiving benefits principally due to unemployment—though this figure rises to 17% when looking only at working-age benefit claimants. False. The latest ...

Researchers found particularly fast growth in new disability benefit claims for learning disability and autism spectrum claims. There was also evidence of increasing levels of severe mental health ...

The prime minister's policy team has been meeting Labour MPs behind closed doors in Downing Street ahead of significant cuts to the welfare budget. These could be twice as deep as the savings that ...