Reducing the Universal Credit taper rate and the effect on incomes

The taper sets the rate at which Universal Credit is withdrawn as claimants’ earnings increase. [...]

People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency

This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment benefits (the “claimant count”) [...]

ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR 6% INCREASE TO BENEFITS

Prices are rising at the fastest rate in 30 years, and energy bills alone are [...]

Accessing benefits with terminal illness

This briefing paper explores the history of rules that help terminally ill people access benefits, [...]

Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) increases

Between 1978 and 1997, contracted-out defined benefit pension schemes were required to provide a Guaranteed [...]

DWP benefits statistics

National and Official statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and [...]

Disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system: Committee publishes Government-commissioned research

The Work and Pensions Committee has used parliamentary powers to publish a Government-commissioned report into [...]

Disability benefits assessments and the Government’s health and disability green paper

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses third-party contractors to provide health and disability [...]

Claimant experience of telephone-based health assessments for PIP, ESA and UC

DWP commissioned external researchers NatCen to conduct surveys with PIP, UC and ESA claimants to [...]

400,000 people could be pulled into poverty by real-terms cut to benefits in April

The independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation is warning that a planned real-terms cut to benefits in [...]