Most are agreed that the benefit cuts will be "big and consequential", said the BBC' s Henry Zeffman. The government will ...

Benefit reforms branded the biggest shake-up to the welfare system in a generation will create a “pro-work system”, the ...

New claimants to the health-related element of universal credit benefit stand to be £40 per week worse off as a result, ...

Liz Kendall and her ministerial colleagues were forced to offer an hour’s worth of holding statements about the government’s ...

Social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told the Commons that he is ‘sad’ about the worries people have expressed.

The Work and Pensions Secretary – who is expected to lay out her plans on Tuesday – told MPs that reforms would be published ...

Responding to the Government’s Green Paper on Welfare reforms, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesperson Steve Darling MP said: ...

The Government is set to announce a major overhaul of the welfare system with suggestions that concessions may have to be ...

Haryana's Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has announced a new scheme for gig workers, featuring a dedicated portal for ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced changes to personal independence payments (PIP), job seeker's allowance and universal credit ...

Liz Kendall has unveiled a major package of reforms to the UK’s welfare system with the aim of saving the government £5bn by 2030.

Dramatic cuts to benefits that have been unveiled by the work and pensions secretary have prompted backlash from charities and trade unions, who have described them as “immoral” and “indefensible”.