12 h. ago Penalties for failing to declare child benefit on tax return plummet as Government eyes changes

Higher earners who do not opt out of payments need to pay a tax charge at the end of the tax year and declare it on their self-assessment tax return or face a penalty.

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24 h. ago First Minister Eluned Morgan leads Welsh tributes to Pope Francis

The 88-year-old Pontiff led with 'unwavering humility, courage and profound compassion'

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7 d. ago UK government under fire from SNP for 'devastating' cut to refugee child benefits

The UK government has cut child benefits for refugee families, in a move branded “worrying” by the SNP.

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2 w. ago Mum suspected former Welsh Prime Minister was haunting her shop but experts had more terrifying theory

"It's now affecting my seven-year-old daughter. She's told me, 'Mummy, there's a man in my bedroom!' I don't know how to protect my children - where does it end?"

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2 w. ago 'The DWP tried to take us to court. If we were wrong we would pay'

The couple said they had faced years of worry after the government failed to process a benefits claim properly

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2 w. ago SNP Government plan to abolish two child benefit cap 'needs Westminster legislation'

EXCLUSIVE: Letters between an SNP Cabinet Secretary and a Labour Cabinet Minister reveal claims Westminster must legislate to help ScotGov's anti-poverty policy.

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2 w. ago 'We're disabled, getting PIP cash and show you can be sexy – despite what trolls say'

EXCLUSIVE: After the UK government caused controversy over the DWP benefits reform - or cuts - we spoke to disability advocate Holly Fleet who is trying to change the face of what being disabled 'is'

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2 w. ago Wales' health minister blasts Rachel Reeves PIP decision as 'wrong' and one Welsh Government 'won't defend'

Wales' health minister Jeremy Miles said the Welsh Government would not have pursued a policy which will impact disabled people

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2 w. ago Britain's benefit influencer epidemic: Scores of 'advisors' are dishing secrets online telling people how to maximise their government handouts

Accounts on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have gone viral, with followers sharing success stories of how they bagged benefits by following these little known secrets.

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2 w. ago RCT foodbanks raise fears over impact of benefit cuts on the disabled

The foodbank networks in Rhondda Cynon Taf said the UK Government measures around disability benefits risk pushing more people into poverty

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2 w. ago Glasgow Labour leader calls on UK Government to scrap plans to cut disability benefits

EXCLUSIVE: Long-serving councillor George Redmond claimed the proposals were something a Tory chancellor could have announced.

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3 w. ago West Lothian business leaders meet to hear how they can benefit from government help

'A number of companies again flagged concerns over staff and skills shortages'

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3 w. ago Government reveal how people claiming three types of benefits will be targeted by new DWP crackdown

The Government are attempting to cut £8.6 billion over the next five years

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3 w. ago Spending more on benefits would be ‘wrong approach’, Jackie Baillie says

Scottish Labour’s deputy leader defended the UK Government’s welfare cuts as she said the rise in the benefit bill is ‘unsustainable’.

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3 w. ago State Pensioners entitled to 11 perks and benefits in April with plenty of freebies

People who are state pension age are entitled to a host of benefits, discounts and perks that are made are available from the government, local councils, charities and companies

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3 w. ago DWP confirms three benefits targeted by new bank checks clampdown first

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has updated the public regarding the crackdown on benefit fraud after the Government announced the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

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3 w. ago DWP confirms three benefits will be first to face new bank checks crackdown

Three types of benefits will be targeted in specific measures to clamp down on benefit fraud outlined by the Department for Work and Pensions in Government guidance

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3 w. ago Welsh First Minister ‘reserving position’ on UK Government’s benefits cuts

Eluned Morgan told members of the Senedd she was waiting to find out what impact the benefits cuts would have on Wales.

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3 w. ago Objection to West Lothian welfare survey findings branded 'Trumpism in a kilt'

The survey in West Lothian found that the majority believed families should “take responsibility for their choices,” rather than receive mitigation payments supported to counter the two-child cap on benefits, which the Westminster government has introduced.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too | Andy Beckett

The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long termFor more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government’s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.From deportation videos to Keir Starmer’s declaration that “I like and respect” Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s talk of “tearing down regulatory barriers” in this week’s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away. Continue reading...

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