Coroners have sent the DWP nine Prevention of Future Deaths reports since 2013A company seven weeks old with £100 in the bank won £200m of PPE contractsHMRC disconnected 44,000 callers who had already waited more than an hourUnpaid child maintenance is projected to reach £1bn by March 2031The Loan Charge has been linked to at least ten suicidesThe Covid-19 Inquiry found there was no emergency procurement plan at all

Coroners have sent the DWP nine Prevention of Future Deaths reports since 2013A company seven weeks old with £100 in the bank won £200m of PPE contractsHMRC disconnected 44,000 callers who had already waited more than an hourUnpaid child maintenance is projected to reach £1bn by March 2031The Loan Charge has been linked to at least ten suicidesThe Covid-19 Inquiry found there was no emergency procurement plan at all

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DWP Corruption & Scandals

Coroners have warned the DWP about dying claimants nine times since 2013

Between 2013 and 2024 coroners issued the Department for Work and Pensions nine Prevention of Future Deaths reports following the deaths of benefit claimants. In that period the department has publicly accepted a coroner’s findings, apologised and changed its practice on a single occasion.

Welfare Desk19 Aug 20263 min

DWP Corruption & Scandals

The Carer’s Allowance overpayment scandal was caused by the DWP, its own review found

Carers who earned a pound over the weekly threshold lost an entire week of benefit. The DWP held the earnings data that would have flagged it and in many cases did nothing with it for years before demanding the money back. The independent review published in November 2025 found the fault lay with the department.

Welfare Desk18 Aug 20263 min

DWP Corruption & Scandals

The DWP’s own analysis found its fraud algorithm treats claimants differently by age and nationality

A fairness analysis carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions itself found statistically significant referral and outcome disparities by age, disability, marital status and nationality in the machine learning system used to select Universal Credit claims for fraud investigation.

Welfare Desk17 Aug 20262 min

DWP Corruption & Scandals

The government costed the April 2026 health element cut before it took effect: 50,000 more people in poverty

From April 2026 the Universal Credit health element for new claimants was cut from £423.27 to £217.26 a month. Government analysis published in March projected that around 50,000 people who become ill or disabled would be pushed into poverty by 2030 as a result.

Welfare Desk16 Aug 20262 min

Government Corruption

A company seven weeks old with £100 in the bank won £200m of PPE contracts through the VIP lane

Suppliers referred by MPs, peers and ministers were placed in a high priority lane for PPE contracts. PPE Medpro, referred by Baroness Michelle Mone, had been incorporated seven weeks earlier and held £100. It won contracts worth over £200m and was later ordered to repay £122m.

Money Desk14 Aug 20262 min

Government Corruption

Sir Wyn Williams published his Horizon compensation findings early because people were still not being paid

Sub-postmasters were prosecuted on the evidence of accounting software the Post Office had been told could produce false shortfalls. Sir Wyn Williams published his findings on redress separately, in July 2025, because years after exoneration people were still waiting to be compensated.

FTG Newsroom13 Aug 20262 min

CMS Corruption & Scandals

Unpaid child maintenance is on course to reach £1bn, thirteen years after the CMS was created to fix exactly this

The Child Maintenance Service was created to resolve the Child Support Agency’s arrears problem. The Public Accounts Committee projects unpaid maintenance on Collect and Pay reaching £1bn by 2031, and the National Audit Office found the service had not increased the number of effective maintenance arrangements at all.

Welfare Desk12 Aug 20262 min

CMS Corruption & Scandals

Parents are charged a fee when the CMS steps in because the other parent stopped paying

When a paying parent stops paying, the case moves to Collect and Pay and both parents are charged. The receiving parent loses a percentage of maintenance owed to their child as the price of the state enforcing an arrangement that somebody else broke.

Welfare Desk11 Aug 20262 min

The Loan Charge has been linked to at least ten suicides and the policy is still in force

The Loan Charge, introduced to tackle disguised remuneration schemes, has been linked to at least ten suicides. Every concession the government eventually made was available to be made years earlier. The arguments did not change; the accumulated political cost did.

Money Desk10 Aug 20262 min

HMRC cut off 44,000 callers who had waited more than an hour, and MPs concluded it was a choice

HMRC answered 66.4% of attempts to reach an adviser against a target of 85%, with average waits above 23 minutes. In eleven months it disconnected nearly 44,000 callers who had already been holding for 70 minutes. MPs found the department was allowing the phones to fail deliberately.

Money Desk08 Aug 20262 min

UK Government News

The Covid-19 Inquiry found there was no proper plan for emergency procurement at all

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry published its procurement findings on 14 July 2026, describing a PPE stockpile in perilous condition with shortages and expired stock, and no proper plans for procuring or distributing key healthcare equipment in an emergency.

FTG Newsroom07 Aug 20261 min

A short guide to the phrases ministers reach for when the honest answer would be damaging

Ministers are bound by the Ministerial Code to give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, which is precisely why the interesting work happens in constructions that are not lies. Here is how each one functions, and the question that tests it.

FTG Newsroom06 Aug 20262 min

The promises index: what was said, and what the documents show happened

A running index pairing public commitments made about the DWP, the Child Maintenance Service, HMRC and public procurement with what the inquiries, select committees and audit reports subsequently found.

FTG Newsroom05 Aug 20262 min