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 ...

Rachel Reeves said in the autumn budget that the DWP could get "direct access to bank accounts" to recover debts.

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

Reeves confirmed that the benefit department's counter-fraud team would be given new powers and would use "innovative" ...

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.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a raft of measures which would help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) combat welfare fraud. Reeves told the Commons on Wednesday ...