Universal credit helpline charges to be scrapped

Work and pensions secretary says all DWP helplines will become free, one week after Jeremy Corbyn asked Theresa May about issueThe universal credit helpline will be made free, along with other Department for Work and Pensions numbers, after Jeremy Corbyn challenged the government last week over the 55p-a-minute charge for people using mobile phones to get help. David Gauke, the work and pensions secretary, told MPs all charges would be abolished by the end of the year at the start of a grilling