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MINISTERS will not launch a second appeal to challenge the legal victory of four single mothers over “unlawful” universal-credit rules.
Judges rejected an appeal earlier this week by the Department for Work and Pensions to overturn a decision that certain of its benefit-payment rules were illegal.
The case was brought by Danielle Johnson who was left fighting to keep her home due to fluctuating universal-credit payments.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people