Department for Work and Pensions

Aerial view of Wigan town centre

Wigan targeted in new £1.3m pilot scheme to help disabled people get into work

The DWP will pay more than seven million households and HMRC will follow with around 830,000 more, taking the total number of households eligible for the cost of living payment to around eight million.

Cost of living payment: Exact date £300 boost will be paid this autumn

People walk near the Jobcentre in Westminster.

DWP warning over Universal Credit changes coming in October

Thousands of Universal Credit claimants are to be affected by new rules that have been introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) this week.

Universal Credit rule change launches this week - are you affected?

Discretionary housing payments are paid by local authorities to cover shortfalls in residents' housing benefit or universal credit

Wigan Council spent more than its discretionary housing payments budget

Around six million people are set to receive a £150 cost of living payment- here’s what you need to know and how to check if you’re eligible for the cash boost.

Millions to receive £150 cost of living payment soon - am I eligible?

Parents claiming Universal Credit will receive hundreds of pounds more from the end of June.

Parents claiming Universal Credit to receive £100s more in shake-up

Combined with a winding-up of older benefits and reduced employment opportunities, the number of people using universal credit across England rose dramatically over the pandemic – and has remained high since

Number of Wigan people on universal credit hits an all-time high

More than six million households will be eligible for the £150 disability cost of living payment, with the money set to start hitting bank accounts from next month.

Exact date six million people will get £150 cost of living payment

Thousands of households are being urged to check if they are missing out on Pension Credit, which automatically triggers eligiblity for the cost of living payment and could make you up to £3,500 better off per year.

Days left for thousands of households to apply for cost of living cash

A Universal Credit sign in the window of the Job Centre in Westminster.

Thousands could miss out on £301 cost of living payment - here’s why

The first instalment of the £900 cost of living payments is set to land in bank accounts today. The £301 cash boost from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC will be paid to those who are eligible over the next few weeks from Tuesday, April 25.

Cost of living payment to land in bank accounts from today

Around eight million people across the UK will be getting the £900 cost of living payment over the next year, but only certain benefits qualify for the cash boost.

Benefits that don’t qualify for the £301 cost of living payment

A fifth of children in Wigan are living in relative poverty

A fifth of children in Wigan living in poverty

Brocol House, on King Street, Wigan

Plans for 140 solar panels to be fitted to roof of Wigan's job centre

Families across the borough have been affected by the cap on universal credit

Wigan families having their benefits capped despite not being expected to work
The Government capped the benefits received by scores of Wigan families last year – despite telling them they were not expected to be looking for work.

What you need to do as deadline to boost state pension extended

Jobcentre Plus on Mesnes Street, in Wigan town centre, is set to close

Wigan job centre set to close its doors within weeks

PIP designed to improve the quality of life of those suffering from long-term physical disabilities or mental health conditions and could be an additional boost for many especially during the cost of living crisis.

The 21 health conditions that could entitle you to £156 a week

The cash boost will start arriving in bank accounts in the Spring.

DWP confirm new cost of living payments for 2023

Top Gear presenter Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff was taken to hospital after being involved in an accident while filming for the show (Credit: Getty Images)

Freddie Flintoff’s Top Gear crash ‘being looked into’ by Health and Safety board

People on benefits will get a one off Christmas bonus payment. (Photo Illustration by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

DWP Christmas bonus - benefit recipients to receive cash boost

Office for National Statistics figures show 88,656 Wigan households containing one or more occupants aged between 16 and 64 had at least one person in employment in 2021.

Cost of living crisis: nearly nine in 10 Wigan households in work

Kevin and Louise Jones on their wedding day

Wigan husband will honour 'soulmate' wife at moving Light for a Life ceremony

The second cost of living payment is due to land in account from November 8.

DWP confirm when second instalment of £324 will be paid this autumn

The two-child limit restricts child allowances in universal credit and tax credits to the first two children in a family unless the children were born before April 6, 2017

Thousands of Wigan children affected by two-child benefits limit

How Universal Credit is affected by August bank holiday - and when you will be p...

Martin Lewis pensioners that are due a payment could receive as much as £3,300 per year (Photo: ITV)

Warning 850,000 households missing out on up £3,300 per year

New Winter Fuel Payment rates for 2022 as millions to get cash boost

Universal Credit is a monthly payment available to those on low incomes and those out of work.

Universal credit claimaints on the rise in Wigan

Figures from the Trussell Trustsuggest food bank use fell below pre-pandemic levels in Wigan last year

Food bank use below pre-pandemic levels in Wigan

Gas prices have been driven up because Russia is a key producer of the fossil fuel (image: Adobe)

Households that claim benefits to have automatic energy bill hikes frozen

The pandemic hit many people in the pocket

One in five Wigan children is living in poverty

Many Wigan residents have successfully challenged the Government over benefit changes or cuts

Wigan disability tribunals

Pensioners will see the triple lock return from April 2023 (image: Adobe)

Pensioners could get £770 boost in 2023 as triple lock policy returns

Cold Weather Payment to close in days - check if you can claim £25 energy rebate

Boris Johnson pictured hosting Christmas quiz during Covid restrictions last yea...

Michelle Barlow

AstraZeneca vaccine probably caused blood clots that killed Wigan mum, inquest t...

Around 500,000 workers who claim Universal Credit are estimated to be in line to benefit before Christmas (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is what you need to know about today's Universal Credit changes

Universal Credit

Wigan people to benefit from major tax cut for Universal Credit claimants

Protestors in Wigan town centre yesterday

One hundred groups implore PM to abandon looming universal credit cut

Lisa Nandy MP, second from left on front row, with Waspi campaigners

Lisa Nandy MP: Now justice for the Waspi women

Waspi pension campaigners in Wigan town centre

Pension campaigners vindicated after Government slammed in ombudsman's report

Across Great Britain, 42,000 parents did not pay any child maintenance they owed in the three months to March

Hundreds of parents in Wigan failed to pay child maintenance during the latest l...

Department for Work and Pensions data shows Wigan Borough Council paid £805,300 in Discretionary Housing Payments in 2020-21

£20k overspend on housing benefit aid for struggling Wigan residents

Some 207 families had up to £100 taken off their weekly entitlement

New figures show scale of single parent benefit cap in Wigan

Brocol House in King Street was closed for a deep clean after 17 Covid cases were confirmed

Wigan Job Centre 'putting public at unnecessary risk of Covid exposure'

Payments from the DWP have been brought forward due to the bank holiday (Getty Images)

This is when benefit payments will be made over the May bank holiday

The Jobcentre Plus at Brocol House on King Street

Job centre in Wigan closed after Covid-19 outbreak

Figures show the impact of Covid-19 on Universal Credit claims in Wigan

Covid-19 impact on jobs market hits older Wigan workers hardest

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the UK economy, with unemployment rising to a five-year high in the three months to December.

Which age groups have been hardest hit by the coronavirus jobs crisis?

4.5m Universal Credit claims have been made since the Covid pandemic started - more than a third of the all-time figure (Photo: Shutterstock)

4.5m Universal Credit claims have been made since the Covid pandemic started - m...

Boris Johnson is in favour of a 6 month Universal Credit uplift - but will it be enough? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Boris Johnson is in favour of a 6 month Universal Credit uplift - but will it be...

The exterior of Mesnes House - plans have been submitted to become a job centre

Job centre plan in Wigan could create 50 jobs

You could be eligible for monthly PIP benefit payments - here’s how to check if ...