Focus on eligible pensioners increases the pension credit and winter fuel payment uptake.

Questions have been asked in Parliament

The prime minister has said the public will have to make "trade-offs" if the country is to improve.

William Ransom Primary School is inviting all the towns schools to join their smartphone pledge.

Prime Minister says looking for work should be ‘basic proposition’ for claiming benefits and that support will be offered to help people find jobs

The Health Secretary used his speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool he accused his opponents of putting 'protecting the reputation of the NHS above protecting patients'.

People who claim long-term sickness benefits should be made to look for work if they are able to, the Prime Minister has said.

One council is creating a hardship grant to cover the extra but other claimants must adjust their budgeting to account for the additional amount

The Government is looking to reduce the number of claimants

Cara Darmody, a disability rights campaigner from Ardfinnan in Co Tipperary, is the older sister of Neil, 11, and John, seven, who are autistic and non-verbal

Sir Keir Starmer has said people 'need to be back in the workplace where they can' and says support will be in place to help claimants get jobs

A 14-year-old activist will tell a protest at Leinster House on Thursday that Ireland is “an international embarrassment” on child disability issues. Cara Darmody, a disability rights camp...

Fed up residents on a council estate in Barking, east London, claim they face problems with mice owing to issues with the removal of rubbish from outside their homes

Marie Buchan, 42, has been living off the state since she was 19 and has enjoyed a life of extravagance having received  total of around half a million pounds to support her children.

XL Bully dogs have been recklessly bred to exaggerate their physical features and now a new trend of XL Bully cats is on the rise, leaving animal welfare charities 'incredibly concerned'