The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing calls to abolish a "shameful" rule that is leaving children in poverty. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned the DWP this week that the ...

Governor Janet Mills urged lawmakers to do the hard work and to make the tough fiscal decisions needed to balance the state's budget. Maine, like many states across the nation, is facing a tight ...

The Department for Work and Pensions will write to the 12.9 million people currently claiming the State Pension before the payments increase on April 7. Of these, 4.1 million receive the New State ...

WORK to install artwork at a row of railway arches in Bradford city centre is due to start next week. For several years, the 10 arches leading to Bradford Forster Square railway station were regularly ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that claimants of four specific benefits could be entitled to an extra £749 per payment period. The annual uprating for disability benefits ...

Benefit cheats could be banned from driving if they repeatedly fail to pay back cash to the taxpayer, under a new government drive to crackdown on welfare fraud. The Department for Work and ...

In an effort to curb welfare fraud, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched what has been dubbed the biggest fraud crackdown in a generation. The Public Authorities (Fraud ...

A BRADFORD mill complex will become a temporary drive ... As part of the upcoming The Big Brass Blowout weekend (April 11-13), BD1 Brass will score acclaimed archive film Echoes of the North ...

The Department for Work and Pensions is seeking to gain new powers to disqualify drivers in a bid to cut welfare fraud (Jonathan Brady/PA) Banning benefit cheats from driving would be a ...

A burgeoning online campaign is urging the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to "stop repeating PIP (Personal Independent Payment) assessments for disabled people." Originated by Gary Robinson ...

The Swansea West MP took up his new role at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last week. Baroness Sherlock said comments made by Mr Bell in the past had been as “a private individual ...

Work has started on a £22m scheme to redevelop Milford Mills into 69 homes. Wavensmere Homes started the build at the site, which overlooks the River Derwent, between Belper and Duffield in north ...