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28 November, 2007

Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee reappointed

Government announcement

27 November, 2007

Private and voluntary sector organisations to be paid on a results-based basis to help long-term unemployed claimants into long-term jobs

DWP publishes interim report on its Commissioning Strategy

27 November, 2007

Work is usually good for people with all types of mental health problems, says Secretary of State

Government to treble the number of Jobcentre Plus advisers in GP surgeries

26 November, 2007

Education, training and the acquisition of skills need to be at the centre of the welfare reform agenda

Employability and skills are biggest barriers to full employment, says government

26 November, 2007

Compulsion should be intensified and the unemployed required to do more to prepare for work

Reform to include more active approach for those on incapacity benefits and changes to the '16 hour rule', says Prime Minister

23 November, 2007

Reform needed to ensure that seasonal and other temporary workers are not penalised by the social security system

New paper from the Social Security Advisory Committee

23 November, 2007

Treasury launches review into loss of child benefit data by the Revenue

Exercise to be led by Chairman and Senior Partner of Pricewaterhouse Coopers

23 November, 2007

Local authority powers to investigate and prosecute national benefit offences

New HB guidance

23 November, 2007

Help with NHS costs in England

New statutory instrument

23 November, 2007

Flow of information between the DWP and local authorities suspended

New HB guidance following loss of child benefit data by the Revenue

22 November, 2007

HB/CTB claims by those granted indefinite leave to enter/remain exceptionally outside the immigration rules

New DWP guidance

22 November, 2007

Reciprocal social security agreement between the UK and Ireland

New statutory rule

21 November, 2007

Housing costs met by IS, income-based JSA & pension credit in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

20 November, 2007

Revenue chairman resigns as millions of child benefit claimant records ‘lost’

Chancellor gives Commons statement on 'major operational problem'

20 November, 2007

DWP to roll out DLA/AA special rules review exercise

Pilot to be widened to include those who've been in receipt of benefit for three years

20 November, 2007

Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board should offer advice across all benefits

Compartmentalised policy thinking reinforces barriers to truly customer-focused services, says DWP

19 November, 2007

Tribunals Service and legal aid budgets to be cut by £230 million

Efficiency challenge facing Ministry of Justice is 'substantial'

19 November, 2007

New ‘Work Capability Assessment’ to be introduced with employment and support allowance

Fifty per cent of those who take the test will not pass it, says government

16 November, 2007

Requiring HB departments and the Department for Social Development to use, without further checking, information previously provided to the other

New statutory rule