Brits claiming Universal Credit without need to look for work soars by 1.5million since Labour came to power ⊕
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37 days ago
The claimant total stood at a provisional 8.40million in December 2025 - up from 7.36million a year earlier, according to new Department for Work and Pensions data.
46 days ago
Laughing in the face of hardworking taxpayers...The Bulgarian migrant who stole more than £54m in UK's biggest benefit fraud is back claiming Universal Credit with her 'depressed' husband after being freed from jail early ○
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Tsvetka Todorova was jailed for three years in May 2024 for her role in a conspiracy that stole more than £54million from taxpayers.
77 days ago
Number of people claiming Universal Credit for health reasons rockets by a MILLION in just ONE YEAR ⊕
The number claiming Universal Credit (UC) because of their health has soared by 41 per cent in the year to September 2025 - increasing by 933,000 people to a record 3.2 million.
84 days ago
Government pledges end to children living in B&Bs ○
The child poverty strategy also includes making childcare more accessible for families on Universal Credit.
89 days ago
'It's only going to get worse': Life in Britain's Universal Credit capital where hard-working families are sick of their benefit scrounger neighbours ⊕
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The Budget has divided public opinion but there is nowhere the split is more evident than in the Universal Credit capital of the UK.
3 months ago
25,000 more families to claim handouts as two-child cap is lifted by Reeves ○
Ms Reeves was accused of caving in to Labour MPs by announcing that parents will once more be allowed to claim Universal Credit and tax reductions for their third or subsequent children.
'They get free phones, uniforms and houses. Why can't we?': Despairing parents in England's poverty capital bemoan golden treatment of asylum seekers while they scramble to survive on Universal Credit ○
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In Newport, Middlesbrough, six out of seven children are currently classed as living in poverty, meaning their households have an income that is 60 percent less than average.
Nearly 1.3m foreign nationals are now getting Universal Credit as Tories demand cuts to handouts instead of tax hikes ○
The latest government data show that 1,270,107 people who were not UK or Irish nationals were receiving the main jobless handouts as of last month.
Four million Brits now claiming jobless benefits without any requirement to work after rise of over a MILLION people under Labour ⊕
A record 8.3 million people were claiming Universal Credit in October - equivalent to almost a quarter of the working age population - up from 7.2 million at the same point last year.
4 months ago
Sicknote youths to dodge clampdown: Pledge to stop benefits for the workshy won't include those with anxiety ⊕
Under the Chancellor's 'youth guarantee', 18 to 21-year-olds who have been on Universal Credit for 18 months without earning or learning will be offered paid work.