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Rachel Reeves set to fast track DWP sickness benefits crackdown
The Labour Chancellor is now targeting the ballooning benefits bill by adopting Tory proposals to reform assessments of the ability of people to work …
Rachel Reeves is cooking up a truly disastrous plan for your pension
Rachel Reeves should rethink her inheritance tax proposals on pensions, writes Baroness Ros Altmann. …
DWP computer system ruled ‘unlawful’
The legal ruling raises serious questions about the government’s plans to increasingly rely on computer systems and AI …
DWP PIP claimants may be able to backdate other benefits and get thousands of pounds
A successful claim for Personal Independence Payment or its Scottish equivalent, Adult Disability Payment, can also provide a gateway to other benefits …
DWP lifts the lid on which bank accounts will be targeted for controversial fraud checks
The Department of Work and Pensions has set out details of which type of bank account activity involving someone receiving benefits that will be targeted. …
DWP investigation over Labour’s Jobcentre reform plans
The Commons Work and Pensions Committee will examine proposals to get people off benefits and into a job in a move designed to curb the rising benefits bill. …
The £51,000 middle class SUV that is Britain’s ‘least loved car’
The car typically spends 21 days of the year off the road for repairs. …
Victory for pensioners in £1.4 billion HMRC tax overpayments scandal
As many as 470,000 people have lost vital income totalling £1.37 billion, which then had to be reclaimed, because of flaws in the HMRC tax collection system. …
DWP announces up to £749.80 extra per period for disability benefit recipients
The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that claimants of four specific benefits could be entitled to an extra £749 per payment period …
Plea for U-turn on Reeves decision to hit pension pots with inheritance tax
The move could mean that the HMRC grabs more than 60 percent of the value of some pension nest eggs in a tax double whammy. …
