A massive computer failure has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). So what is happening to benefit claimants, and how did the problem arise in the first place? This is likely ...

Durham County Council’s revenue and benefits department shut down the system last month in order that new council tax bills for 2013-14 could be produced and other upgrades carried out. However the ...

TWO women were prosecuted for fraudulently claiming benefits after their jobseeker's allowance entitlement ended. Kelly Peck, aged 34, of Lathwood House, Sydenham, and Paula Weldrick, aged 29, of High ...

A major computer system used to process benefits payments has been shelved, the Government confirmed today. The system, known as the Benefits Reprocessing Payments Programme, was "refocused" in the ...