Benefits and work blogs

Race against time: how short deadlines to return PIP forms are harming disabled people

12 March 2025

Focus on the causes, not the symptoms: the forthcoming disability benefits green paper could exemplify a new approach to welfare - instead it is likely to apply the same old tools to a problem we don’t yet fully understand

10 March 2025

Short-sighted savings won’t fix health and disability benefits

19 February 2025

Moving fast but breaking things? The risks of the DWP’s approach to ESA migration to UC

29 November 2024

Supporting every child: Should the government remove the 2 child limit?

26 September 2024

A duty of care: How the benefits system is failing care leavers

23 August 2024

The next government will be reforming welfare

24 June 2024

Universal Credit exists in a different timezone to the people who depend on it

20 May 2024

The (In)Flexible Support Fund is failing people trying to move into work

9 May 2024

Paying for the government’s mistakes: carers aren’t the only victims of the DWP’s benefit overpayment policies

8 May 2024

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