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Starmer hires ex-M&S chief to tackle youth unemployment crisis

Marc Bolland has been tasked with convening business leaders to help address the number of young people not in education, employment or training after a bombshell report revealed the problem costs £125billion a year

The Independent UK

Stop forcing terminally ill benefit claimants to prove illness, leading charities urge

Exclusive: The current system is ‘simply wrong’, more than 30 organisations write

The Independent UK

Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes

Announcement comes after former minister Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected a generation of young people

The Guardian - UK

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Sick notes ‘scrapped’ under plans to reduce benefit claimants

‘Fit notes are too often a dead end,’ the work and pensions secretary said

The Independent UK

DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’

Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to pay

The Guardian - UK

CCTV exposes benefit cheat working out at gym after telling DWP she ‘can’t walk’

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The Independent UK

Benefit cheat who claimed she could not walk caught doing zumba and spin classes at gym

A benefit cheat who claimed she could not walk was caught on CCTV working out at the gym.

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‘Housebound’ benefit cheat caught running 10k races and doing Zumba classes

Helen Green received more than £25,000 in PIP after claiming she could not walk for longer than five minutes

The Independent UK

Woman who claimed she could not walk jailed for benefit fraud after 10k race

Helen Green, 49, told the DWP she needed crutches and was housebound but was caught on CCTV taking part in exercise classes and running 10k races.

Evening Standard

DWP enforce new change that will exclude people aged 24 and under

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The Independent UK

DWP criticised for PIP changes excluding young people under 25

Disability charities have said the plans penalise young people ‘because of their age’

The Independent UK

‘Unhelpful and ill-informed’: Charities slam Tony Blair think tank report on disability benefits

The former PM’s firm put forward an ‘emergency handbrake’ plan for welfare spending

The Independent UK

DWP announces Pip changes affecting all 4m claimants

Exclusive: The reforms will remove ‘unnecessary pressure’ from claimants, Labour minister says

The Independent UK

‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit

Government advisers call for review of rules that cause loss of household income when a child takes up job training

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Over 700k Pensioners Missing Out on £4,300 Annual Top-Up and Three Months of Backdated Pay

UK pensioners may be missing out on Pension Credit, which offers up to £4,300 in additional support. Eligible pensioners can claim backdated payments, helping to ease financial pressure amid rising living costs.

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Martin Lewis issues urgent warning to pensioners as 900,000 missing out on support

The finance guru hit out at Labour’s ‘shenanigans’ over the winter fuel payment

The Independent UK

Austerity-era benefit cuts plunged nearly a quarter of British children into poverty, study finds

DWP secretary says that ‘too many children and families’ suffered under Conservative-era policies

The Independent UK

DWP reveals exactly who will get winter fuel payment this year after U-turn

Some pensioners will need to pay back their payment through the tax system

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Are You Eligible for Winter Fuel Repayments? The DWP Says Some Pensioners Aren't — Here's Who Will Be Affected

New rules mean some pensioners will miss Winter Fuel Payments, with stricter eligibility and income limits affecting who receives support.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of unpaid carers to face DWP repayment demands during overhaul

Ministers admit carer’s allowance penalties will continue while review of more than 200,000 cases is carried out

The Independent UK

Thousands of unpaid carers set to have debts cut or cancelled following government intervention

This widespread issue that affected unpaid carers has been condemned as a ‘scandal’

The Independent UK

DWP gives new deadline for benefit claimants to make crucial switch

A key date has been moved back by at least several months

International Business Times UK

DWP Fraudster Catherine Wieland Claimed Anxiety Left Her Housebound—Photos Tell Another Story

A West Sussex woman deceived authorities with false anxiety claims to fraudulently obtain disability payments, only to be exposed by her adventurous lifestyle abroad. Learn about the court's verdict and the consequences she now faces.

The Independent UK

Benefit cheat who claimed she was too ill to leave house caught ziplining in Mexico

When investigators confronted her with bank statements she told them: ‘I didn’t realise you’re not allowed to leave your house’

Evening Standard

Benefit cheat who claimed anxiety left her housebound caught ziplining in Mexico

Catherine Wieland must repay the £23,000 she was given in benefits she did not qualify for, the DWP said.

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