23 April, 2024
23 April, 2024
Survey of PCS Union members invites frontline staff to provide feedback on DWP’s safeguarding policies, practices and culture
23 April, 2024
Rejecting Committee's advice for a slower or phased implementation, DWP says it is 'committed to providing more intensive support to in-work customers'
23 April, 2024
New housing benefit circular advises on fraud and error activities that local authorities are expected to undertake in return for additional funding
23 April, 2024
New Subsidy Circular also sets out the amounts of the single upfront payments that each council will receive in 2024/2025
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
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
In a letter to DWP Minister, Cabinet Secretary highlights the impact the cost of living crisis is having on students and suggests that disregarding loans 'would very much support your Back to Work agenda by improving their long term job prospects'
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
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