18 September, 2024
18 September, 2024
Submission to multi-year Spending Review also calls for the justice system to be funded in line with the demands made of it rather than budget allocations, and for the widening legal aid eligibility
18 September, 2024
Joint briefing from CPAG, Shelter and Women's Aid in response to the latest DWP benefit cap statistics also highlights the disproportionate effect of the policy on survivors of domestic abuse, women and children.
17 September, 2024
New report from IPPR says that approach would help people not only to find work, but to find appropriate work that suits them for the long term and, by making work more viable, also help to reduce DWP costs
17 September, 2024
Written answer in Parliament also advises that recruitment of additional case managers will increase the number of review cases that can be completed ‘in house’
17 September, 2024
New management information also shows that more than 16,000 referrals have been made for work capability and PIP assessments under the Health Transformation Programme since January 2023
17 September, 2024
17 September, 2024
New DWP statistics also highlight that the weekly average cap amount increased from £51 to £59 in the same period
17 September, 2024
New statutory rule places operational practice on a statutory footing following the Court of Appeal's 2019 judgment in Kavanagh
16 September, 2024
Department confirms that tax credit claimants can still qualify for winter fuel payment, and says that to safeguard any transitional protection they should defer their universal credit or pension credit claim until they have received their migration or closure notice
16 September, 2024
Age UK highlights that Department estimates that 70 per cent of disabled pensioners will lose the payment, and that more than three quarters of a million pensioners who are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it will miss out
13 September, 2024
Pilot, which began in 2023, designed to identify potential overpayments in cases where claimants have not informed HMRC about absence from UK
13 September, 2024
New initiative designed to help with ambition of creating fairer labour market and halving disability employment gap by 2038
12 September, 2024
New providers delivering work capability assessments and PIP assessments across specific geographic areas with effect from 9 September 2024
12 September, 2024
New statutory instruments place operational practice on a statutory footing following the Court of Appeal's 2019 judgment in Kavanagh
12 September, 2024
New statutory instrument, that comes into effect from 2 December 2024, provides for a new digital case management portal and makes other changes required since current rules were adopted in 2009
12 September, 2024
Appointment follows three previous terms as a member of the Committee, as well as having served as both Shadow Secretary of State and Shadow Minister within the DWP
12 September, 2024
Vote follows the Scrutiny Committee having said that it is unconvinced by the reasons given for the urgency attached to laying the new regulations, and it is not clear that the DWP has assessed the risk of them causing inequality
12 September, 2024
New DWP statistics show that, of these, more than three-quarters had an outcome of limited capability for work-related activity
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