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Ms McLaughlin, who lived with her partner John Adams for more than 23 years, discovered her children would miss out on tens of thousands of pounds in benefits following Mr Adams' death in January 2014, A landmark bereavement benefits case involving a...

Campaigners in Cornwall say; 'Christmas is cancelled'... thanks to benefits cuts and delays. The Unite Community Cornwall branch is holding a protest in Truro on Saturday, as they act against Universal Credit. They say those applying for it will now...

According to the BBC: A couple who have been engaged for 30 years can finally marry after a £1m lottery win. Tony Pearce, 66, and Deb Gellatly, 58, from Southend, have never been able to afford the cost of a wedding. The Lotto raffle prize mean...

An NHS England board paper has warned that a lack of funding will mean waiting times standards won't be met next year. NHS chiefs also said that factoring in England’s growing and aging patient population, NHS revenue per pe...

The UK care home sector is faced with an unsustainable £1bn funding gap, the Competition and Markets Authority has warned. This has led to care homes propping up their finances by charging higher prices to those who pay for their own care,...

The U.K.’s long-term aim in the Middle East is economic development, and May’s officials make a powerful case for using British aid cash to manage a regional demographic time-bomb. One U.K. official highlighted stats showing a staggering...

A man aged 65 in the UK can now expect to live, on average, to 85.6 and a woman of the same age to 87.8, new figures reveal. A boy born today could expect to live to 89.5, whilst a girl could expect to live to 92.1. Triple lock pension refers to addi...

Work & Pensions Committee Committee opens new phase of inquiry: next steps to fix Universal Credit The Committee published a report on Universal Credit: the six week wait in October 2017. Following the package of changes to UC announced in the No...

North West Durham CLP (Constituency Labour Party) in partnership with Unite Community are holding a day of action to call for the Government to Pause and Fix Universal Credit. This will be one of the biggest days of action ran by the CLP on this...

The Government is to publish plans to get millions more disabled people into work over the next 10 years, it was announced today. The move follows last year’s Green Paper which pledged to reduce disability employment gap by half. In June this y...