An annual report by the care regulator has highlighted how the continuing social care crisis is impacting disabled and older ...

Parents who pay to support a child through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its Child Maintenance Service (CMS) ...

Disabled people have warned of “severe” consequences if the chancellor goes ahead with reported plans to remove the ...

Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, ...

A Labour-led committee of MPs has called the government’s universal credit cuts act “discriminatory” and warned that it will ...

A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on the government to draw up a national strategy to address the “deeply troubling” and “systemic” barriers that prevent disabled people accessing ...

The Labour government has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs. Leaked ...

Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green paper has ...

The court of appeal has overturned a controversial legal ruling that found it would be lawful for a care worker to enable a young disabled man to pay for time with a sex worker. A Court of Protection ...

New government figures that show an increase of 1.3 million in the number of disabled people in work since 2017 are “meaningless” when it comes to the inequality disabled people face in the jobs ...

The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told MPs that he hopes DWP’s use of artificial intelligence in detecting fraud among benefit claimants will not lead to ...

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has refused to apologise after repeatedly misleading MPs by suggesting that her planned cuts of billions of pounds to personal independence payment (PIP) were ...