According to the government department, you will be excluded from this first round of payment if your benefit was reduced to £0 during the qualifying period between January 26, 2023 and February 25, 2023. The key reason this will exclu...
*The Scottish government will continue to take responsibility for its replacement for PIP, adult disability payment Picture: (From left) Jodey Whiting, whose death has been linked to the failings of Maximus; Stephen Carré, whose death has been linked to the actions of Atos; and Ph...
By now, Errol had completely cut himself off from contact with his family and friends, and he refused to answer the door or even speak to them when they tried to visit. The following June, his body was found by bailiffs sent to evict him for non-payment of rent. He was 57 years...
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There will be a total of £900 for those on means-tested benefits, paid in three instalments of about £300 each in spring 2023, autumn 2023 and spring 2024; a £300 pensioner payment in winter 2023-24; and a £150 payment for those on disability benefits this summer. ...
It made it clear that the introduction of universal credit in 2013 – combining six working-age benefits into a single monthly payment through a “digital interface” – had presented “more acute challenges for some vulnerable claimants”. ...
Last September, Ashworth was told by the then employment minister Victoria Prentis that DWP could not say how many universal credit claimants had seen their payment reduced to nothing because of a sanction in each month of 2022 because this would “incur disproportionate cost”. ...
Among them was Sophia Yuferev, a talented artist who lived with significant mental distress and had been living on a sandwich a day for the last few months of her life, after both her employment and support allowance and her personal independence payment had been stopped by Coffey’s departmen...