The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

What Government plans for Universal Credit, DWP benefits and pensions may mean

Benefits could be cut in real terms, while the average family may be just £90 better off a year

Wales Online · Oct 4, 2022

Liz Truss refuses to rule out real terms cuts to Universal Credit as pressure mounts on PM

The Prime Minister is reportedly considering raising benefits in line with earnings rather than inflation - and telling claimants it is unfair to receive a higher raise than workers.

Daily Record · Oct 4, 2022

Check your eligibility for £324 second cost of living payment due next month

People on DWP means-tested benefits are set to receive the second part of the £650 means-tested support.

Daily Record · Oct 4, 2022

Tory Esther McVey warns Liz Truss slashing benefits will be a 'huge mistake'

The former Work and Pensions Secretary joined the chorus against Liz Truss warning 'it cannot be that the books are balanced on the back of benefits. That is not right at all'

Daily Mirror · Oct 3, 2022

Man wins DWP appeal after Universal Credit cut forced him to live on vegetable juice

He blasted a lack of apology from the DWP after seeing his Universal Credit docked by £88

Wales Online · Oct 3, 2022

Man on Universal Credit who had benefits cut wins DWP appeal

Errol Livingstone, 57, said claiming the benefit was more stressful than being an NHS calls handler during the Covid-19 pandemic

Manchester Evening News · Oct 3, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to rule out new era of austerity as Universal Credit cut looms

The Chancellor faces accusations of leaving vital public services with a 'massive black hole in their budgets' as he refused to be drawn on whether the government will curb public spending

Daily Mirror · Oct 3, 2022

Iceland boss wants Universal Credit to rise £20 a week to help struggling Brits

Richard Walker told a fringe discussion at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham that Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget did not do enough to help those on low incomes, and called for the £20 Universal Credit uplift to be reinstated

Daily Mirror · Oct 2, 2022

Benefits blow as thousands of PIP applications rejected by DWP

180,000 people applied for the benefit from April to July this year, the highest level since PIP began, and just 79,000 were awarded

Chronicle Live · Oct 1, 2022

Veteran claiming Universal Credit and forced to live in his car was 'left to cope' after leaving army

Marc Hill, formerly of the 1st Battalion Light Infantry, served in Afghanistan and Iraq says more needs to be done to help veterans when leaving the military

Chronicle Live · Oct 1, 2022