Adam Forrest

Edinburgh, Glasgow

Scotland Correspondent at The i Paper

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Articles

I worked for the DWP - now I’m on benefits and need their help to find a job

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

The Government must fix “useless” Jobcentre support or benefit reforms are doomed to fail, a former Department of Work Pensions (DWP) case worker has warned. Labour plans to cut almost £5bn from health-related benefits – Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and the incapacity element of universal credit – in a bid to push more people into work.
'Gimmicky and populist': Reform's 'Doge' cuts won't fix bankrupt councils, say experts

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Council bosses have been warned to prepare for a wave of “war on waste” cuts if Reform UK makes major gains at this week’s local elections in England. Nigel Farage has vowed to be Britain’s Elon Musk, promising a Doge-style initiative to eradicate frivolous spending by “fat and lazy” local authorities that are “taking taxpayers for mugs”. Posing with a chainsaw, Musk has been leading US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency in an effort to reduce state spending.
Inside Glasgow: birthplace of universal credit where one in three are out of work

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Glasgow’s east end once boasted Scotland’s biggest steelworks. The Parkhead Forge was surrounded by bustling factories and tenements, back when Glasgow was known as the second city of the British Empire. The Parkhead Forge no longer exists, though the name lives on today as a shopping centre. The days of full employment are long gone too. Almost one in three people in this area are living on benefits.
Who could be the next Pope and how will they be chosen?

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Cardinals from across the globe have descended on the Vatican City to fill a power vacuum left by the death of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old Pontiff died on Monday 21 April after suffering a stroke and then heart failure, just a day after his last public appearance on Easter Sunday. His body has been lying-in-state at St Peter’s Basilica since Wednesday and queues have snaked across St Peter’s Square as more than 150,000 people have waited patiently to pay their respects.
Dangerous spike in fraudsters offering fake compensation to Waspi women

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Waspi women face a “dangerous” rise in fraudsters offering fake compensation, money expert Martin Lewis and other campaigners have warned. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group has urged women born in the 1950s to be wary of websites falsely offering compensation over the rise in the state pension age is available.
Dangerous spike in fraudsters offering fake compensation to Waspi women

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Waspi women face a “dangerous” rise in fraudsters offering fake compensation, money expert Martin Lewis and other campaigners have warned. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group has urged women born in the 1950s to be wary of websites falsely offering compensation over the rise in the state pension age. One woman in Derbyshire reported that she had been asked to provide copies of her birth certificate and bank details through an online form before realising it was a scam.
Who could be the next Pope and how will they be chosen?

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Following the death of Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88, discussions over who will succeed him are underway. Conversations about who will be named the next Pope have been going on for some time within the Catholic Church hierarchy, according to Vatican experts. Power changes hands only when the Pope dies or resigns. It is the duty of the dean of the College of Cardinals – currently held by 91-year-old Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re – to organise a conclave to elect a successor.
I claim PIP - Labour cuts will backfire and push people like me out of work

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Labour’s plan to cut benefits to boost employment levels will backfire by pushing disabled people out of work, ministers have been warned. Disabled people in work who also depend on personal independence payments (PIP) told The i Paper they were being unfairly targeted for “soul-destroying” welfare cuts. Last month the Government announced big changes to PIP and the incapacity element of universal credit aimed at saving almost £5 billion a year by the end of the decade.
How the gender self-ID ‘disaster’ could get worse for the SNP

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

The SNP must drop gender self-identification policies or face “disaster” at the 2026 Scottish election, leader John Swinney has been warned. The First Minister is facing calls to make clear that the plan pushed by his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon to make self-ID easier for transgender people is now dead.
I couldn’t pay my council tax bill - so the local authority took my benefits

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Local authorities have been urged to stop their “aggressive” debt recovery methods as some families struggle to cope with this month’s council tax rises. Widespread use of court action, threats of imprisonment from bailiffs and deductions to benefit money is causing misery for council tax bill payers in financial hardship, say charity leaders.