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 ...

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 ...

Liz Kendall said she had made the changes - which will see the eligibility criteria for disability benefits narrowed - because she wanted to "tackle a failing system that is failing the people who ...

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 PIP assessment process will be reformed, and relied upon as a single way of considering whether someone should be receiving disability benefits. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ...

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 ...

We are now closing this page, but there is plenty of analysis and news across the BBC: We've spent today covering the announcement of plans for major changes to the benefits system aimed at ...

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 ...

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Many different DWP benefits are set to rise from next month, including State Pension and Universal Credit. Every year rates go up in line with the rate of inflation from the previous September.

“It’s typical of the Treasurer’s ability that a bad policy he dressed up as tax reform has blown out in cost while delivering a benefit to only a tiny slice of Australians,” Mr Taylor said.