Under the current rules, benefit claimants who have received compensation after a criminal conviction may find themselves ...

A HUGE change to Universal Credit rules meaning benefits won’t be stopped over a cash mistake has been confirmed by the ...

Universal Credit claimants will not see their cash stopped if they receive compensation following a criminal conviction, it ...

A change in the law will make compensation for miscarriages of justice exempt from benefit assessments - and campaigners say ...

The updated legislation will now ensure that these payouts are disregarded during the assessment process, potentially allowing access to various means-tested benefits, including income-based Jobseeker ...

Victims of miscarriage of justice won’t have their compensations acting against them when applying for benefits ...

However, to push the bill through, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall confirmed the universal credit health top-up ...

Almost four million households could be in line for an annual income increase of £725 from the Department of Work and ...

The reforms to the welfare system are aimed at improving living standards across the country, as part of the Government's Plan to Change scheme.

Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP Lillian Jones writes for the Cumnock Chronicle... FURTHER to emails from constituents and because of my own concerns, I was one of the 108 Labour MPs who co-signed the ...

Rachael Maskell said pressing ahead with the welfare reform Bill risked leaving “such a stain” on her party, as she urged ministers to scrap a proposed change to the out-of-work element of universal ...