3 h. ago New DWP update for nearly 150,000 older people on Attendance Allowance

A new devolved payment will replace Attendance Allowance for people in Scotland this year.

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22 h. ago Foreign Office warns holiday mistake could cost you over £150,000

Brits going on holiday are advised to plan ahead as they could be liable for emergency expenses

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35 h. ago Foreign Office warns holidaymakers to do key check or risk losing over £150,000

Brits going on holiday are being advised to plan ahead of any potential accidents or emergencies

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57 h. ago Attendance Allowance simplified to help older people make a new claim for up to £434 each month

Nearly 1.7 million people over State Pension age are receiving either £72.65 or £108.55 each week in Attendance Allowance.

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3 d. ago Older people may be able to boost current Attendance Allowance by £134 a month

Nearly 1.7 million State Pensioners are now receiving either £72.65 or £108.55 each week to help with a long-term health condition.

Economics

4 d. ago DWP shares major Jobcentre update as part of plans to overhaul disability benefits

According to reports, the work coaches are already employed by job centres, but they will be "redeployed" to different areas to offer tailored and "intensive" support to people on health-related benefits

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5 d. ago DWP issues crucial update for those who pay rent and claim Universal Credit

The department has not revealed whether compensation can be expected in the future

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5 d. ago DWP Winter Fuel Payment eligibility update as minister issues statement

The annual Winter Fuel Payment of up to £300 is now no longer available to some 9.2 million older people, following a policy change last summer

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6 d. ago DWP update on who will be will be targeted in bank account checks

Officials will be able to look at bank statements and directly take funds from accounts

Economics

6 d. ago ‘The price was huge’: Hezbollah reeling as Lebanese ponder sacrifices of its war

The fighting with Israel has weakened the group and brought heavy losses to residents in its southern heartland Crowds of people gathered last week in the ruined town square of Aitaroun, south Lebanon, to attend the mass burial of 95 people, one of the largest funerals held in Lebanon since the start of the Hezbollah-Israel war.Hundreds of people waving Hezbollah flags watched as rows of coffins were brought in by four lorries, the vehicles’ procession lined with flattened buildings destroyed in Israeli bombardment months earlier. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago WASPI campaigners share update amid hopes to overturn DWP decision

The group has given an update after threatening the government with legal action

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6 d. ago Attendance Allowance set to end in 13 council areas this month

A new devolved payment will replace Attendance Allowance for nearly 150,000 people by the end of this year.

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7 d. ago Half a million pensioners boost their State Pension by over £5,000 a year

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released updated figures on the State Pension for the financial year 2025/26, as well as other benefit payments

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8 d. ago People only just realising where they've seen Oscars nominee Cynthia Erivo before

Cynthia Erivo has become one of the world's biggest actresses, and this weekend will attend the Oscars where she is up for Best Actress – but people are just realising where the star got her break

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8 d. ago DWP Attendance Allowance update warning with "limited applications"

Here is everything you need to know about Attendance Allowance

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8 d. ago It might be a small consolation, but Elon Musk is getting poorer by the day | John Naughton

As his goons root through the innards of the US government, Tesla sales are plummeting, the cars are being defaced and owners are ashamedExtreme wealth has always played a role in democracies. Money has always talked, especially in the US. Years ago, Lawrence Lessig, the great legal scholar, calculated that most of the campaign funding for members of Congress and aspiring politicians came from one-twentieth of the richest 1% of Americans – about 150,000 people. This is about the same number as those who are named “Lester” and explains the title of his book: The USA Is Lesterland.But that particular corruption of American politics only involved billionaires like the Koch brothers playing organ-grinders to congressional monkeys. The obscene wealth generated by the tech industry has catapulted a new organ-grinder into the heart of the machine. He was able to pay his way in with a spare quarter of a billion dollars that he happened to have lying around. And now the wretched citizens of ...

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1 week ago DWP legal battle update as victory means disabled will get compensation after losing cash

The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed the payment timeline for tens of thousands of disabled benefit claimants who lost out

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1 week ago Sports are an ideal home for Donald Trump’s singular brand of ego stroking

Presidents have always used sports to further their own agendas. The current incumbent has identified exactly where he can boost himself the mostDonald Trump’s appearance at this year’s Daytona 500 was not subtle.Named the race’s grand marshal, the president buzzed the speedway from aboard Air Force One, dangling the world’s most advanced airliner above 150,000 Nascar fans the way a parent humors an infant with a spoonful of baby food. Later, from the backseat of the presidential limousine, AKA The Beast, he paced the 41-car field around the oval track before the race. The sight of that 20,000lb machine sticking to the track’s banked lanes at 70 mph blew away the crowd all over again. “This is your favorite president,” he told the drivers via their in-car radio system. “I’m a really big fan of you people. You’re talented people and great people and great Americans.” The shock and awe spectacle couldn’t have been more fitting of a man who has been taking the country for a ride since ...

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1 week ago DWP gives update on thousands of benefit claimants set for compensation after court battle

Not everyone will get compensation at the same time, universal credit boss reveals

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1 week ago Deadly blasts hit M23 rebel rally in captured DRC city of Bukavu

Deaths and injuries reported after explosions at rally attended by thousands in city captured by rebel groupSeveral people have been killed and dozens more injured after blasts at a mass rally held by the M23 group in Bukavu, the city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo captured by the rebels earlier this month.Footage posted on social media showed people fleeing the scene. In another, bloodied bodies lay on the ground, and injured people were being carried away. Continue reading...

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