12 November, 2019
12 November, 2019
New statistics also show that 78,000 households, out of 1.9 million total, received payment more frequently than standard monthly cycle
11 November, 2019
New statutory rule
8 November, 2019
Failure to replace measures such as mitigating bedroom tax and benefit cap will plunge poorest households into crisis, says Chief Commissioner
8 November, 2019
Commitments include the ‘mainstreaming’ of equality, with outcomes seeking to make 'practical improvements' addressing inequality and discrimination
7 November, 2019
APPG on poverty also calls for the social fund in England to be reinstated as a rights-based national assistance scheme
7 November, 2019
6 November, 2019
Action follows 44 complaints about campaign which featured regional press ads in the Metro and a web page hosted on the Mail Online and Metro Online websites
6 November, 2019
Recommendation to end the two-child limit is also dismissed as a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly to consider
6 November, 2019
Annual Report for 2018/2019 highlights development of 'polluter pays' proposal which would shift cost of tribunal hearings to departments in cases where initial decision was clearly wrong
6 November, 2019
Real terms decrease in funding allocation and significant pressures from inflation and rising demand highlighted in pre-budget scrutiny report
5 November, 2019
DWP response to Committee's thematic inquiry disagrees with its calls for more generous benefit uprating and benefit cap rates, local housing allowance rates and universal credit deductions policy
5 November, 2019
DWP reports on review of cases where reported self-employed earnings had not changed over period of 12 months
5 November, 2019
Government's response gives little hope that the DWP has even understood what the problems are, let alone that it might do anything to end the misery it continues to inflict, says Committee Chair
5 November, 2019
Public Acounts Committee also expresses concern that, although HMCTS has extended reform timetable to seven years, it is still struggling to deliver all it promised
5 November, 2019
Consultation launched in light of fact that two-thirds of eligible disabled people are not accessing the scheme
5 November, 2019
Payment, which covers expenses such as a coffin, flowers and funeral directors' fees, will rise from £700 to £1,000
5 November, 2019
Hunger in the UK isn’t about food, says Trussell Trust, it’s about people not having enough money
5 November, 2019
New Department for Communities statistics also show that 85 per cent of capped households are single parents
