The adverts did not accurately reflect evidence and left out important information, the advertising watchdog ruled.

Government's Universal Credit adverts banned for 'misleading' public

300,000 cases are still to be assessed which could end up costing the DWP up to £2.2 billion.

200,000 people affected by benefits error to be repaid £1bn

An estimated 70,000 claimants transferred to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) from other benefits since 2011 were underpaid.

A major error in paying disability and sickness benefits to 75,000 people is to be put right - at a potential cost of up to £500 million.


The cap has been reduced from £26,000 a year to £20,000 a year in the UK - meaning 64,000 new households are hit by the reduction.

Huntingdon's, autism and congenital heart conditions are among those likely to be exempt from reassessment.


Iain Duncan Smith broke down and cried during a television interview about the plight of a single mother he had met.


Up to 640,000 people could be impacted by changes to welfare payments as the Government hopes to save £1.2 billion.

Janet Street-Porter investigates concerns around the growing wealth gap between young and old

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is critical of the tip-off system, comparing it to 1950s McCarthyism.

Measure would allow Britain to withhold in-work benefits to EU migrants until they have been in the UK for up to four years.

A £70,000 benefits cheat who said he couldn't walk was filmed pulling two suitcases through an airport before going on a luxury holiday. 

Thousands of people have died shortly after being declared fit to work by the Government, new figures reveal.

The stock photograph of a woman the Government pretended was a benefits claimant has been used by the DWP before, it has emerged.

A leaflet from the Department of Work and Pensions has been revealed as fake after officials made up comments from fictional claimants.