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Summary Unsuitable advice During our ongoing inquiry into pension freedom and choice we received worrying evidence regarding financial advice provided to members of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS). BSPS members have, over the past year, been...

Weaver Vale MP Mike Amesbury has pledged his backing to a Northwich benefits campaigner whose tragic story mirrors that of a real-life Daniel Blake. Barbara Dean and her husband Bill ran a successful taxi and minibus service company up until 1997. Bi...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Department for Work and Pensions reminded loved-up couples receiving benefits to declare their living arrangements.  It said that people claiming to be living alone, when they weren’t,...

An increase in the number of people dying in hospital with a diagnosis of malnutrition has prompted understandable concern. One leading charity has described the figures as “shocking.” But as Myer Glickman explains, many factors other tha...

More than £100 million has been spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefits in little more than two years, new figures show.  This is in addition to the tens of m...

The UK state pension is the "lowest in the developed world", according to the latest OECD figures that display a comparison between the more generous state-funded pensions and the least. According to the data, the UK is at the bottom of the global pe...

Retailers have suffered the worst January for sales and footfall since 2013 figures released today have shown. The fall in shopper numbers and consumer spending has put more pressure on the sector which is already straining under costs from business...

The Work & Pensions Committee have published a report on the PIP and ESA assesments. From the Work & Pensions Committee.  In September last year we put out a call for evidence on the medical assessments for disability benefits PIP and ES...

The government has launched a crackdown on unpaid internships according to the Guardian, sending more than 550 warning letters to companies and setting up enforcement teams to tackle repeat offenders. HM Revenue & Customs is expected to target se...

Joy Watson was forced to give up her job as a carer after she was diagnosed four years ago and is unable to manage her own medicine or cook because she forgets to turn off the gas. An award-winning dementia campaigner whose fight for others saw her b...