Nigel Farage’s party continues to drop in popularity as the new prime minister’s boost holds steady

‘Manchesterism’ underpins the veteran politician’s plan for Britain. Here’s what Burnham says he would do as PM

There will be more ‘challenging discussions’ on the future of the benefit, official report admits

Exclusive: Majority of UK adults forced to make difficult choices, with almost two-thirds found to be cutting back on essentials like food and heating

Exclusive: More and more women are being ‘pushed towards homelessness’, charity warns

Poverty will remain stuck at a high level without change, researchers warn

Stark new data comes as Labour announces its homelessness strategy

Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding will all become more regular and intense, experts say

Income stagnation over the past two decades is ‘unprecedented in modern times,’ damning new report warns

Fake news about changes to household finances is proliferating online

Families and youth workers occupy recently closed centre run by Living Under One Sun in Tottenham in protest over lack of affordable childcare and school holiday support

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

Over a million current disability benefit claimants have been left out of Labour’s welfare concessions – and most are children

More than half of disabled people who attend a health benefit assessment say they feel humiliated by the process

Exclusive: Doctors and renters tell The Independent how housing issues are worsening health in Britain

Campaigners have called the conversation a ‘sham’ as people are invited to discuss only half of the proposals

Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith

Experts warn 100,000 more people plunged into poverty by cuts than government previously estimated

Britain’s economic watchdog may not publish forecast of employment prospects until the end of October

The spending watchdog’s says it was not provided with an analysis of how the reforms could boost employment

Welfare recipients tell The Independent what losing their health-related benefits would mean to them

New analysis has found almost half of all private renters who receive housing benefit experience a shortfall between the government support and monthly rents. Holly Bancroft and Albert Toth speak to c...

Major reforms to welfare are expected to be announced today

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall set to unveil plans to slash welfare bill by £5bn in benefits overhaul

People with first-hand experience of the health benefit speak to The Independent

Running a government where starving children and freezing pensioners is the price to pay for funding endless wars, Keir Starmer's only legacy will be a more dangerous and unequal world.

The deadline to expect the payment has been revealed

Despite the bottle going unnoticed on the way out, the passenger had to pay extra on her return as part of the baggage rules

Agents do not ‘simply accept the result provided by the solution,’ DWP says

The damning report comes ahead of Labour plans to cut disability benefit spending

Keir Starmer has sought a closer relationship with the Murdoch-owned newspaper, under his leadership

Changes to the work capability assessment are at the heart of Labour plans