Why is this login only returning failed? Laravel 5.3

I've got a custom login code here. As you can see, it's very simple. And we can get as far as the username, but for some reason it never succeeds, I always end up printing a failure.

public function postSignIn(Request $request){

        $val = DB::table('ministry')->where('Username', Input::get('Username'))->first();

        if ($val && Hash::check(
            Input::get('Password'), $val->Password)
            ) {
            return redirect()->route('agencydash');
        } return 'failed';

I'm unfamiliar with how the Hash facade works, so debugging has been tricky.

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