Workers living on state benefits are well aware, it is quite impossible to put a little by for a rainy day, for every day is forecast as a ...

All working-age benefits, including tax credits and child benefit, will only go up by 1% a year – less than half the rate of inflation – fo...

Tens of thousands of sick and disabled people in Scotland face being forced on to unpaid work programmes under threat of losing their ben...

On Thursday 22nd a dozen people, including members of benefit claimants' groups Black Triangle and the Crutch Collective, C...

It was a badge used by the SS guards to mark prisoners as “workshy” in Nazi concentration camps. Now the “black triangle” symbol has been ad...

Under the new rules, claimants face a tougher medical test, existing claimants are being re-tested, there are new requirements to engage in ...

Deaths of people who were waiting for appeals to be heard against the loss of benefits has prompted calls for a fairer assessment syste...

“We think we are heading towards malnutrition happening here in the UK.” - Save the Children’s Colette Marshall told the BBC . "Benefi...

A single person living in Britain needs to earn at least £13,400 a year before tax to afford a basic but acceptable standard of living, rese...

THE number of Scottish children in care is at its highest in two decades and youngsters are being pushed on to the streets at just 16, leavi...

Just how society treats our elderly is becoming cruelly more and more apparent . We had this report , a 108 year old woman having to wait a ...

Councils in England are restricting access to social services such as home care, day services and respite care. The Commission for Social Ca...