Universal Credit

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street on November 4, 2025. She has hinted that the two-child benefit cap could be scrapped in the 2025 Budget (Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Budget 2025: Chancellor Reeves hints at extra support for families

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DWP brings forward benefits and pensions for August bank holiday

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5 one-off benefit payments due in 2025 that could net you over £1,500

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Free benefits checker helps1000s find support – it’s open to everyone

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Urgent DWP warning for over-60s as four key benefits set to be axed

68 per cent of parents agree with the charter

Ad Feature Breakfast charter launched as 8 in 10 parents fear poor school meals

1 in 4 primary school children fail to reach the expected standard of reading when leaving primary school.

Literacy charity targets areas of greatest need

John Healey has welcomed the government's school meals expansion

MP welcomes free school meals for 5,000 pupils

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Households urged to claim £1,000 in support before local deadlines hit

The Government says that thousands of children from struggling households had been missing out on free school meals

How to know if your family is eligible, as free school meals expanded

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Change to Help to Save scheme opens free cash eligibility to millions

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Spring Statement: relief but unconvinced - I’m still reeling from cuts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to deliver her spring statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement: will it put more cash in your pocket?

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves 11, Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

8 takeaways from Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement - including welfare

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Labour's benefits shake-up - my takeaways as a finance specialist

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Universal Credit: health element changes and above-inflation rise news

Liz Kendall, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, leaves after attending the weekly Cabinet meeting of ministers at 10 Downing Street on March 18, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Government announces major changes to PIP and Universal Credit

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Housing Benefit to rise in April – here's how much more you could get

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9 ways you can get council tax support - as millions face huge rises

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Millions receiving Universal Credit can expect increases of £10 soon

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Households across the UK to receive up to £500 in cash support

New Year 2024: all the early DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates

A study of 2,000 adults found 26 per cent of these have received financial help with presents

4 in 10 households have relied on generosity to get through Christmas

Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual Autumn budget to Parliament (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

UK families to get free cash as Household Support Fund is extended

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'I'm scared' - pensioner warns of 'dire' winter as energy costs rise

The free school breakfast clubs will build on support for families already available, the Department for Education says

When Labour's free school breakfasts will start - what we know so far

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Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

The money will people most in need

Families to get £200 via Household Support Fund - but funds are low

Martin Ingram Flowers (60) who broke his leg at work and was told by the DWP to quit his £40k a year job in order to claim benefits.

Watch: DWP told me to quit my job to claim benefits when I broke leg

DWP holiday warning to anyone claiming PIP or Universal Credit

What you need to know about the new Universal Credit rules

Benefit fraud gang shower floor with £20 notes

Watch: Benefit fraud gang shower floor with £20 notes

Universal Credit claimants urged to get 'better paid jobs' by government ministe...

MONEY MATTERS: Sorting your debts
AFTER the expenses over the winter period, more people can find themselves in debt or struggling with bills.

Mayor: Retro’s the way forward

Progress boost for Rotherham's low-paid workers

More children are receiving free school meals

Grave warning over axing of ‘credit uplift

Rotherham jobless total doubles in a year

Universal Credit claims up 99 per cent in lockdown

Rotherham Foodbank.

Universal Credit to blame for Rotherham foodbank use say MPs Champion and Healey

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City region mayor Dan Jarvis vows to tackle "deeply concerning" rise in homeless...

Foodbank appeal after Universal Credit rollout in Rotherham

Unemployment up in Rotherham - but youth jobless figure falls

One-in-three children in Rotherham "living in poverty"

Rotherham jobless figure falls by 0.5 per cent

LETTER: The dregs come first

Jobless number down in Rotherham

The incident reportedly occurred during a Rawmarsh local derby, between Rawmarsh FC and The Horse and Jockey FC, on Sunday, October 25, 2026

Breaking Police investigating Sunday League match violence

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice L-R Francesca Mills, Jill Halfpenny

Paul Chuckle in 'major new production of modern classic'

Dr Jason Page (second left) at the launch of the facilities in Parkgate Shopping in 2022

'Thankful' Mirban urges those invited to get their lung health check

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