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DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
A DWP Jobcentre
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in June 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Here's everything to know about the benefits and pensions to expect from the DWP in June 2025, including how much your benefits are going up
33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term
kids eat free/ easter holidays
Cost of living crisis

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term

I carried the weight of my £60,000 debt alone. Then one conversation changed everything
Debt

I carried the weight of my £60,000 debt alone. Then one conversation changed everything

Letters: Is it any surprise there's a lack of patience with Labour?
Letters

Letters: Is it any surprise there's a lack of patience with Labour?

How lockdowns through history have led to revolt and misinformation
Lockdown

How lockdowns through history have led to revolt and misinformation

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse
Childhood dreams

People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse

The benefits, dangers and impacts of a cashless society
Stock image of a card payment
Money

The benefits, dangers and impacts of a cashless society

Buy now, pay later? Understanding the new rules, the risks and how it all works
Stock image of a person online shopping with their credit card in their hand
Buy now, pay later

Buy now, pay later? Understanding the new rules, the risks and how it all works

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension
Letters

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension

Calls for a law change to protect survivors of domestic abuse left on the verge of financial ruin
domestic abuse survivor/ silhouette of woman
Domestic abuse

Calls for a law change to protect survivors of domestic abuse left on the verge of financial ruin

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption
Letters

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline
Ukraine war

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists
a boy in school uniform eating a carrot
Food

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists

Where to get free financial advice now – from benefits to budgeting
Stock image of a woman writing with a pen and paper
Money

Where to get free financial advice now – from benefits to budgeting

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'
Food poverty

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty
Food

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty

100-year-old WW2 heroine Dorothea: 'As soon as the war finished we were told to go back to the kitchen'
letter to my younger self

100-year-old WW2 heroine Dorothea: 'As soon as the war finished we were told to go back to the kitchen'

UK risks 'sleepwalking into crisis' as cashless society shuts out more and more vulnerable people
A sign reading 'CARD ONLY'
Money

UK risks 'sleepwalking into crisis' as cashless society shuts out more and more vulnerable people

Covid left me thousands of pounds in debt – I was suicidal. Here's how I turned things around
Debt

Covid left me thousands of pounds in debt – I was suicidal. Here's how I turned things around

Letters: Should we be reducing our consumption of American things?
Letters

Letters: Should we be reducing our consumption of American things?

I got a loan to help me pay for my dad's funeral. The interest sent me spiralling into debt
Finances

I got a loan to help me pay for my dad's funeral. The interest sent me spiralling into debt

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
From smoking and nerve gas to poor quality air: How the act of breathing became political
Health

From smoking and nerve gas to poor quality air: How the act of breathing became political

Letters: If billionaires stockpiled food, would we all be left to starve?
Letters

Letters: If billionaires stockpiled food, would we all be left to starve?

Paula Radcliffe: 'I thought I'd never get over the Olympics – but it's just sport'
Letter To My Younger Self

Paula Radcliffe: 'I thought I'd never get over the Olympics – but it's just sport'

Green Party leader calls for urgent NHS reforms to stop homeless people being denied eye care
Green party co-leader Carla Denyer seen speaking at a Specsavers event calling for inclusive eye care for homeless people
Health

Green Party leader calls for urgent NHS reforms to stop homeless people being denied eye care

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