The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has dropped his first hints on how he plans to approach social security reform, while also pledging to “end rough sleeping”, in a speech outside 10 Downing ...

Several senior ministers who will play key roles in disability policy over the next few months have kept their jobs under new prime minister Andy Burnham. Burnham’s decision to keep Pat McFadden ...

The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to release all but a few words from scores of emails discussing its role in the deaths of hundreds, and probably thousands, of disabled benefit ...

A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir ...

A lengthy review by the aviation regulator has exposed numerous failings by airlines operating in the UK in how they treat their disabled passengers. The review by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) ...

A Labour minister – the sister of chancellor Rachel Reeves – is facing difficult questions after an ombudsman’s ruling linked a constituent’s suicide with the flawed personal independence payment (PIP ...

Disabled activists have delivered an angry and dismissive response to a government minister who has tried to justify dropping plans to put accessibility at the heart of rail reforms from a ...

Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the personal independence payment (PIP) system, just as her government was ...

A disabled MP has warned the government that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “broken” and “not fit for purpose”, and that major changes to the social security system need to be ...

The government’s flagship disability employment scheme has managed to sign up less than 80 private sector employers in more than three years to its highest accreditation level, new research has found.