The DWP mistakenly paid £850 million in benefits to deceased claimants across 2.6 million erroneous transactions since 2021. Less than half of the taxpayer funds have been successfully recovered by the government. #DWP #UKPolitics #Welfare #News
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DWP mistakenly pays £850 million to deceased claimants in massive benefit blunder

Managing a household budget is stressful enough right now. Navigating the welfare system often feels like an uphill battle for families across the UK. But an

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The DWP launched a new digital trial for PIP applications in the UK. Application volumes spiked 33% as the maximum monthly payout increased to £834.26. #DWP #UKNews #PIP #Welfare
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DWP rolls out major digital PIP trial to ease the mental burden for £834 monthly claimants

The UK welfare system is in the middle of a massive structural overhaul right now in 2026. The Labour government is aggressively pushing to digitize the

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Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival | Ella Michalski https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/06/struggling-families-like-mine-cost-of-living-survival #UkCostOfLivingCrisis #Poverty #Society #Welfare #Politics #UkNews
Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival

Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project working with low-income families

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Aquatic Ethologist/Behavioral Scientist: Crustacean Health & Welfare Assays
Animal Pain Research Institute

Join our team as an animal #behavior scientist/ethologist to develop behavioral assays for shrimp health and #welfare.

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Labour to back down on foie gras and fur bans to ease EU trade deal

Exclusive: Animal welfare charities ‘bitterly disappointed’ that Labour plans to backtrack on manifesto commitments

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Ooopsies! #WhiteHouse accidentally releases video of #TrumpSucks saying the truth about #war's priority

"In a closed door speech the White House apparently accidently published and then deleted (but not before it was downloaded and reshared), #DonaldTrump declared the inability of the federal government to provide for things like #daycare when his priority is #military strength, not the #welfare of the American public. Senator Chris Van Hollen joins to discuss."

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A quotation from Lincoln

   The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
   The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
   From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

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Lincoln, Abraham - Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government | WIST Quotations

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well…

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This is coming to the #NDIS unless we change the mind of Politicians who don't really understand AI: Guardian News: ‘Letting the algorithm rip’: no legal basis for lack of human override of aged care funding tool, inquiry hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/03/aged-care-funding-assessment-tool-algorithm #Agedcare #Welfare #Health #Disability #Discrimination #AusPol
‘Letting the algorithm rip’: no legal basis for lack of human override of aged care funding tool, inquiry hears

Department says it’s received 834 requests for a review of tool’s assessments since it launched in November

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‘Letting the algorithm rip’: no legal basis for lack of human override of aged care funding tool, inquiry hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/03/aged-care-funding-assessment-tool-algorithm #AgedCare #Welfare #Health #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
‘Letting the algorithm rip’: no legal basis for lack of human override of aged care funding tool, inquiry hears

Department says it’s received 834 requests for a review of tool’s assessments since it launched in November

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Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/labour-disability-cuts-universal-credit #Disability #Benefits #Labour #UniversalCredit #Welfare #Society #WorldNews #Politics #UkNews
Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late

If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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