Welfare rights news

23 May, 2007

Trade unions can play a central role in the provision of welfare to work services

Experience and expertise invaluable, says Work and Pensions Minister

23 May, 2007

Social Fund is in limbo and its performance must be addressed as a matter of urgency

New report from the Work and Pensions Select Committee

23 May, 2007

DWP to pilot the referral of more fraud cases to the Magistrates’ Court rather than the Crown Court

New HB guidance

23 May, 2007

Benefit rights of Iraqi nationals granted Indefinite Leave to Enter or Remain

New HB guidance

22 May, 2007

£1.7 billion overpaid to tax credit claimants

New government figures

21 May, 2007

Local authorities are largely optimistic about the future of joint teams

New research for the Local Government Association

21 May, 2007

Extension of the ‘Intensive Activity Period’ programme to 50 - 59 year old JSA claimants

New DWP guidance

18 May, 2007

Third of eligible pensioners still not in receipt of pension credit

'New and imaginative thinking' needed to encourage take-up, says Commons Public Accounts Committee

18 May, 2007

Risks to vulnerable individuals of participation in DWP pilots must be justified by the potential be

New Social Security Advisory Committee report

18 May, 2007

Revenue to introduce independent review of tax credit overpayment decisions

Pilot to commence in summer 2007

18 May, 2007

Moving lone parents onto the JSA regime would be ‘expensive, unfair and ineffectual’

One Parent Families responds to Freud 'welfare to work' report

18 May, 2007

Government begins tender process for replacement of PO card account contract

However 2,500 post offices to close by 2009, DTI confirms

17 May, 2007

Public sector reform must be driven by partnership between the state and the individual

Shared sense of ownership needed, says Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

17 May, 2007

DWP takes ‘significant step’ towards achieving child and pensioner poverty goals and employment oppo

But performance targets continue to be missed, according to 2007 Departmental Report

15 May, 2007

New child support commission to ‘come down hard and fast’ on parents who fail to pay maintenance

Government responds to consultation on last year's White Paper

15 May, 2007

Government proceeds with new advance claims rules despite there being ‘neither a compelling or convi

Secretary of State rejects Social Security Advisory Committee's recommendations

14 May, 2007

Numbers of unemployed 18 to 24 year-olds higher now than at New Deal programme’s launch

Independent think tank calls for reform

14 May, 2007

Government proposals for additional paternity pay and leave

Department of Trade and Industry launches consultation

11 May, 2007

Miscellaneous changes to housing benefit regulations in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule