PBS medicines will cost a maximum of $25 if Labor wins the ... medical giants targeting the "egregious" Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), promising to make medicines even cheaper from next ...

A planned freeze of incapacity benefits is set to cost current claimants £80 per year and new claimants £2,500 annually, analysis shows. As part of proposed benefit reforms, the Government is ...

The prime minister's remarks come after the government announced a major benefits overhaul on Tuesday. The rising cost of sickness and disability benefits is "devastating" for the public finances ...

Among the changes announced by work and pensions secretary Kendall in the Commons on Tuesday are a tightening of eligibility for the personal independence payment (PIP) disability benefit. Other ...

The cost of long-term sickness and disability benefits for working-age people has risen by £20bn since the pandemic and is forecast to hit £70bn over the next five years. Ministers have said ...

The Health Secretary has said there is an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions with “too many people being written off” as he defended plans to cut the benefits bill. Wes Streeting ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to outline plans today to get more people back to work and cut the cost of the rising benefits bill. Downing Street has said there is a "moral ...

The Labour Government is poised to unveil its welfare reform strategy today (March 18), which is anticipated to encompass £6 billion in benefits reductions. This announcement comes just before ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to set out plans for reform on Tuesday in an effort to get more people back to work and cut the cost of a benefits bill described by ministers ...

People currently claiming long-term sickness and disability benefits have shared their concerns ... that she says she would struggle with the cost of getting to work. Lorraine, 62, from Northwich ...