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12 July, 2024

DWP confirms allocation of responsibilities across new Ministerial team

Update follows appointment of new Ministers further to last week's General Election

12 July, 2024

AI tools could free up as much as 40 per cent of DWP’s workforce time, says Tony Blair Institute

Former Prime Minister’s think tank publishes report claiming that technology could take over a significant portion of Department’s workload and deliver annual savings of £1 billion

12 July, 2024

Disregarding interim infected blood compensation payments in the calculation of housing benefit

DWP issues new guidance to local authorities

11 July, 2024

Immediate action must be taken to address unacceptable rising levels of economic inactivity, says new Work and Pensions Secretary

Liz Kendall outlines that growth is the government's number one mission and that its Back to Work Plan is central to achieving its aims

11 July, 2024

Government must abolish ‘deeply damaging’ two-child limit immediately, says CPAG

Call comes as new DWP statistics show a record 1.6 million children in 440,000 families are affected by the policy

11 July, 2024

Almost two-thirds of DHP expenditure for 2023/2024 was related to welfare reforms

New DWP statistics for England and Wales also show that a quarter of expenditure related to the removal of the spare room subsidy

11 July, 2024

DWP issues guidance to local authorities on the closure of tax credits and the transfer of state pension age claimants to universal credit or pension credit

New circular highlights changes made by the Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants: Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

11 July, 2024

Confusion about backdating highlighted in Scottish government’s evaluation of transfers to devolved disability benefits

Report also recommends changes to the review process for claimants transferring onto adult disability payment

10 July, 2024

New line-up completed at the DWP with appointment of further Ministers

Emma Reynolds and Andrew Western join the Department, along with Baroness Sherlock in the Lords

10 July, 2024

Scottish Parliamentary Committee launches consultation to examine the impact of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 since it came into effect

MSPs seek views on matters including how poverty reduction policies might have been different without the Act and whether it has served to ‘focus minds and resources’

9 July, 2024

New Work and Pensions Secretary called on to scrap plans to tighten work capability assessment

Rather than reducing economic inactivity, charities say that changes will instead 'condemn seriously ill and disabled people to a life of poverty and the threat of sanctions'

9 July, 2024

Northern Ireland Minister for Communities rejects SSAC’s recommendation to exempt lead carers from increased administrative earnings threshold

Due to the flexibility' available to universal credit work coaches to tailor individual work-related requirements, Minister argues there is no need for the exemption

8 July, 2024

New government takes shape as No.10 announces series of ministerial appointments

Stephen Timms and Alison McGovern join the DWP, with appointments also made to housing, social care, justice and equality briefs

5 July, 2024

Liz Kendall appointed as new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

New Cabinet announced today following Labour Party's victory in yesterday's General Election

4 July, 2024

Closure of tax credits and the transfer of state pension age claimants to universal credit or pension credit

New DWP guidance

2 July, 2024

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland called on to publish data relating to social security appeals on an annual basis

Law Centre NI highlights that open and transparent data is vital to recognise significant trends and help to ensure that everyone has equal access to justice

28 June, 2024

Chair of Independent Review of ADP launches call for evidence from organisations that support claimants to help inform future recommendations

Feedback will be considered alongside responses to a second consultation aimed at claimants and carers

27 June, 2024

Requirement for decision makers to consider whether claimants with pre-settled status would be destitute if benefit is refused

New DWP guidance follows the Court of Appeal's November 2023 decision in SSWP v AT

27 June, 2024

DWP’s algorithm for spotting housing benefit claims with high risk of fraud and error ‘seriously underperforms’

Civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch says the algorithm is not as effective as pilot suggested and puts hundreds of thousands of people through intrusive reviews every year