23 April, 2024
23 April, 2024
Written answer in the Northern Ireland Assembly also confirms that almost 30,000 official error debts were recorded in the same period
22 April, 2024
New programmes will not help as many people, and those in some areas will have no support at all for a year, says ERSA
22 April, 2024
New legislation will change rules to remove benefits entirely from the long-term unemployed who ‘don’t accept available work'
22 April, 2024
DWP minister Mims Davies confirms in written answer to Parliament that number of applications outstanding has risen to almost 30,000
22 April, 2024
ASY & Ors v Home Office [2024] EWCA Civ 373
22 April, 2024
19 April, 2024
Measures to introduce a more 'objective and rigorous approach' set out as part of speech outlining 'moral mission' to remove barriers to work
19 April, 2024
Change, that will see all migration notices sent by the end of December 2025, will give people 'more access to the world of work', says Prime Minister
19 April, 2024
New thresholds of £892 for individual claimants and £1,437 for couples come into effect from 13 May 2024
19 April, 2024
Views sought on plan to offer integrated employment and healthcare services to those seeking a fit note
19 April, 2024
Cabinet Secretary says that while the Scottish Government does not oppose the principle of a new body, it should be formed only once Social Security Scotland has responsibility for delivering employment injury assistance
18 April, 2024
Expert legal advice commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch questions the lawfulness of measures included in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
18 April, 2024
New DWP figures also estimate that the LCW caseload will reduce by more than 30,000 by 2028/2029, with these claimants instead falling within the intensive work search group of universal credit
17 April, 2024
National rollout of the new benefit expected to complete in April 2025, with phased transfer of existing attendance allowance claimants to start 'early' next year
17 April, 2024
In response, Gordon Lyons says that he does not 'support or defend the two-child limit in any way', and should be in a position to produce a report on the proposal before the end of the calendar year, if not sooner
16 April, 2024
Issuing a written statement, Minister adds that individuals affected by the change will be contacted by the Department through their universal credit journal and will have their claimant commitments reviewed
15 April, 2024
Reform was designed to meet the problem of high unemployment in the 2010s, and did not anticipate there being more than two million claimants with poor health or disabilities who are among the biggest losers in the move to the new benefit
15 April, 2024
Finding there is a 'significant and weighty' public interest in understanding and being able to scrutinise the policy, Commissioner orders Department to publish requested information within 35 days
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