The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

Calls for struggling Universal Credit claimants to be given £700 emergency cash boost amid cost of living crisis

Former Conservatives leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for benefits to be increased in line with inflation to help Brits struggling amid cost-of-living crisis

Manchester Evening News · May 22, 2022

Emergency DWP cash boost of £700 proposed from end of June for people on Universal Credit

Three options are being discussed, the other two being increasing work allowances back to their 2015 levels or bringing back a £20 a week uplift

Liverpool Echo · May 22, 2022

Cost of living: 9 reasons you can get free NHS dental treatment

There are a number of ways you can access free NHS dental treatment, which will be a massive help in the cost of living crisis. Are you eligible?

Leeds Live · May 22, 2022

Tory peer who helped set up Universal Credit calls for benefits boost

Baroness Philippa Stroud has also called for the £20 uplift to be restored having previously warned that its removal would plunge thousands into poverty

Evening Standard · May 21, 2022

DWP Universal Credit fraud crackdown allows officers power to make arrests and execute warrants

The plan will save the taxpayer £2 billion

Nottingham Post · May 21, 2022

PIP, Universal Credit and other benefits to be paid early due to Spring and Platinum Jubilee bank holidays

DWP benefits and Tax Credits payment dates may change if it falls on June 2 and 3.

Daily Record · May 20, 2022

Legacy benefits timetable for managed migration to Universal Credit not known until DWP completes 'discovery phase'

MPs asked DWP about the planned timeframe for managed migration in areas across the UK.

Daily Record · May 20, 2022

DWP Universal Credit warning as staff given power to arrest claimants

Department for Work and Pensions staff may be given sweeping new powers to arrest claimants and issue fines — as well as have easier access to their bank details

Glasgow Live · May 20, 2022

New DWP plan to tackle benefit fraud to focus on these five areas of Universal Credit claims

A new 2,000-strong team will review more than 2m existing Universal Credit claims over the next five years.

Daily Record · May 20, 2022

‘We’ve had our humanity ripped away’: meet Jeshi, the rapper raging at the cost of living crisis

The east London MC was carrying a knife at 11 but is now about to release an era-defining album. The trouble is that it’s the Tories’ austerity era – something he’d rather see the back of

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022