Labour has urged ministers to block six-figure bonuses for Network Rail bosses, insisting they have the power to prevent such payouts.

Compensation payouts for prisoners held longer in jail because of delays in parole hearings has more than doubled in the last year.

Vince Cable will on Monday outline plans to "call time on payouts for failure" and force companies to explain why they are spending massive sums on rewarding top executives.

NHS executives have accumulated pension pots worth more than £2.5million, it has been claimed.

Policyholders accuse Prime Minister of "cynically" raising hopes when in opposition by promising to "sort out" Equitable Life.

Telegraph View: The Government has decided to settle the claims, even with those whose connections to this country were tenuous

If anything, a million pounds is not compensation enough for seven years’ detention without trial in Morocco and Cuba, including subjection to starvation, sleep deprivation, regular beatings and having your penis mutilated with a scalpel. For that reason, Binyam Mohamed deserves the money. Sure, the pay-off means that legitimate questions over whether he received paramilitary

A row has broken out between unions and the government amid claims that officials are "bullying" civil servants to leave their jobs with reduced payouts.

A hospital has made secret compensation payouts to victims of misdiagnosis in a scandal over "botched" cancer care.

Away for a week, but I read the papers, and on the same day they told me that (a) £5 bn pa is lost through fraud and error in social security payouts, and (b) UK banks have awarded £10 bn in bonuses this year. Which cheat-riddled benefits system should we reform first?