The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed plans for "direct access" to benefit claimants' bank accounts. This ...

Benefit fraud has been in the spotlight recently due to upcoming regulations that will grant DWP officials greater authority ...

Questions have been raised in Parliament about staff employed to review Personal Independence Payment claims among other ...

Any reports by claimants of a change in circumstances - which could mean entitlement to higher payments - will be thoroughly ...

For those in a couple, both partners must agree to accept and repay the hardship payment. Once the sanction or penalty ends, ...

As the DWP plans to heighten surveillance of benefit claimants' bank accounts in a crackdown on welfare fraud, a single mum ...

If your Universal Credit is reduced because of a sanction or penalty for fraud, you can apply for a hardship payment to help ...

The DWP is rolling out bank account checks in a crackdown on fraud and clampdown on benefit scammers, under the new Labour ...

New measures aimed at cracking down on benefit fraud will give investigators “direct access” to people’s bank accounts.

PERSONAL Independence Payments (PIP) are a lifeline for many Brits with physical or mental health conditions that make it ...