A fraudster who falsely claimed almost £16,500 in benefits over five and a half years has been given a suspended prison ...

UNIVERSAL Credit can help people struggling with the cost of living – but you won’t be able to get it if you earn too much.

Originally, the proposed changes to Universal Credit were meant to cut the health element from £97 to £50 per week and freeze ...

The areas to have been most impacted by the controversial two child cap are located outside of Lancashire, however. There were a total of 10,900 children living in households impacted by the two-child ...

Universal Credit is paid to more than seven million people across the UK - and the DWP will reduce your payments if you have ...

Labour’s welfare reform has completed the next stage of its passage through Parliament, bringing benefit claimants closer to ...

A mother on Universal Credit has left her job - which was earning her £20,000 a month - to claim benefits from the Department ...

Changes to PIP and Universal Credit could have a particularly "damaging" effect on people in certain parts of the country, an ...

MORE than half a million households claiming Universal Credit saw their payments cut or stopped in the past year. The ...

Universal Credit is claimed by more than seven million people in the UK - but how much can you have in savings before your ...

The Universal Credit Bill, which has undergone several concessions after pushback from MPs, has now cleared the House of ...

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