The disability benefits system could be overhauled to encourage more claimants into work and control costs, the minister in charge of reforms has argued.

Both assessments have long been criticised by disability rights campaigners as difficult and inconsistent processes.

Checks on millions of claimants for sickness benefits have become more lax under Labour, new figures obtained by The ...

The DWP is considering speeding up payments to fatally ill stonemasons following campaigning by The i Paper ...

LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Britain's government wants to tame its ballooning bill for supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions which, despite the cost, leaves many ...

Currently, nearly 1.4 million older people across Great Britain are receiving the support ...

The UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled new rules for welfare benefit claimants. Under the government’s back to work plan, £2.5 billion of funding is to be allocated to employment support schemes ...

Low-income pensioners on disability benefits, or those providing unpaid care, may be entitled to extra financial support.

The Scottish Conservatives said the SNP’s ‘soft-touch benefits regime fails to tackle unnecessary or fraudulent claims’.