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UK welfare reform

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Ministers look at softening UK welfare cuts to avert rebellion by Labour MPs

    Government is seeking to save £5bn a year by reforming disability benefits known as ‘personal independence payments’

    A ‘Crips Against Cuts’ protest on College Green against the UK government’s proposals for cuts to disability benefits
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    UK considers taxing pensioners to claw back winter fuel payment

    Plans are being looked at following Starmer’s policy U-turn this week, say officials

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Starmer looks at scrapping UK’s two-child benefit cap

    Prime minister’s move to appease Labour MPs could create a £3bn conundrum for Rachel Reeves in the Autumn Budget

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    UK politics
    Keir Starmer makes U-turn on winter fuel payments

    UK prime minister tells MPs he wants ‘more pensioners’ to receive the benefit

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Ministers prepare minor concessions to soften impact of benefits cuts

    Move comes as government braces itself for major rebellion by Labour MPs against contentious disability welfare reforms

    Protesters demonstrate in Westminster against welfare cuts
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    UK Government
    Downing Street rules out reversing cut to winter fuel payment

    Government insists on retaining policy despite senior Labour figures blaming it for local election losses

    Generic image of a person sitting at home in front of an electric fire
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Work Watch
    The enduring pay gap for disabled people

    Ministers say welfare cuts will help more benefit claimants into employment — but work doesn’t always reward everyone fairly

    Montage of a man in a wheelchair checking his phone with broken pound signs in the background
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    News in-depthLabour party UK
    Reeves’ drive for security leaves Labour beset by uncertainty

    The UK chancellor has made herself a prisoner of market movements, while the party’s MPs fret over how cuts will go down

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Benefits cuts to fuel ‘recession level’ hit to UK’s poor, warns think-tank

    Chancellor has chosen to ‘concentrate the pain’ on sick and disabled, Resolution Foundation says

    Protesters demonstrate outside Downing Street against disability and welfare cuts during the Spring Statement on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Ministers play down likely rise in poverty from UK welfare cuts, says charity

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation says forecasts rely on ‘sleight of hand’ to underestimate true impact of reforms

    Protesters gather in Whitehall as Rachel Reeves leaves Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement as it happened: Reeves announces £14bn plan to fix Britain’s strained public finances

    UK chancellor forced to make last-minute savings to shore up the nation’s finances

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Chancellor forced to find more savings after watchdog doubts £5bn costing

    Chancellor forced to find more savings after watchdog doubts £5bn costing

    Rachel Reeves during a visit to RAF Northolt in north London
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Thousands of Britons to have welfare income cut by more than 60%

    FT calculations point to dramatic impact of government reforms to benefits system

    Montage shows someone walking with a stick and an able-bodied person against a data backdrop
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK employers ‘find it cheaper to replace sick staff than retain them’

    Report by former John Lewis head calls for stronger incentives for employers to invest in workforce health

    Sir Charlie Mayfield, who is leading the Keep Britain Working review
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    ‘Like a frog getting boiled’: Labour MPs feel the heat over £5bn welfare cuts

    Starmer’s hopes of curbing a party rebellion over a policy seen as latest shift to the right will be put to the test

    Liz Kendall, protester
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Explainer
    How the UK’s welfare cuts will change claimants’ lives

    Radical changes that will cut income for 1mn people may not get many more into work, say analysts

    FT montage shows a woman in a wheelchair working on a laptop against a backdrop of pound notes
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Labour unveils disability benefits cuts that aim to save over £5bn

    Move risks stoking biggest backbench rebellion of Keir Starmer’s premiership

    UK work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall presenting the government’s plans to parliament on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    Starmer is zigging where Blair zagged

    Labour’s controversial plans to reform welfare illustrate the divide between the two

    Illustration of two ornately framed mirrors on a red wall. Keir Starmer is standing in front of one and seeing a young Tony Blair reflected back, and Blair is standing in front of the other and seeing Starmer’s reflection
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    1mn fewer people to secure health benefits under UK welfare reform

    Government measures require a Commons vote that could provoke a rebellion by Labour MPs

    Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall prepares to slash spending on health-related benefits

    Liz Kendall
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Inside Politics
    UK’s devolved governments can learn from each other on welfare reform

    There is no reason why the four countries can’t share information to see which approach is working

    A teacher and pupils in a classroom
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    The welfare dilemma: how to help 3.5mn people trapped on health-linked benefits?

    As costs spiral, ministers search for ways to get people with medical problems into work

    A montage of hands holding wrists with FT column chart in the background
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    UK ministers to drop plan to freeze key disability benefit

    Decision on personal independence payments comes ahead of government paper setting out wider reforms on Tuesday

    Liz Kendall departs a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London on March 11
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    What went wrong with the UK’s welfare system?

    Factors behind sharp rise in incapacity and disability benefits are complex and at times counterintuitive

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    UK politics
    Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ UK cabinet meeting

    ‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departments

    Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood
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