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6 August, 2024

DWP agrees £105 million contract with external provider to deliver ‘inbound mail and document management’ services

'Digital transformation specialist' to open, sort, scan and manage all DWP's inbound written and electronic communications from citizens as part of new six-year agreement

6 August, 2024

Department for Communities seeks views on how current welfare supplementary payment schemes are working in Northern Ireland

Results of the survey will help inform decisions on the future of the mitigation schemes

5 August, 2024

Government confirms that issue of universal credit migration notices to housing benefit-only cases only began in July 2024

DWP says the delay was to allow the required automation to be put in place in order to ensure migration is completed in a safe and scalable way

5 August, 2024

Treasury could save up to £12 billion over next ten years if it invested in provision of specialist free legal advice

Access to Justice Foundation says that the advice sector is at breaking point, and that funding is not just an ethical imperative but a financially sound decision

5 August, 2024

Government confirms Heidi Alexander given MoJ brief to oversee court reform, legal aid and tribunal administration

Appointed as Minister of State following the General Election, MP for Swindon South has previously held the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Health

1 August, 2024

Charities call on Chancellor to reconsider government’s decision to means-test winter fuel payments

Open letter warns that the change taking effect from this winter is 'too much, too soon' and puts lives at risk

31 July, 2024

Providing that the deadline for seeking permission from the Court of Appeal to appeal to the Supreme Court is 28 days

New statutory instrument sets out change among a series of amendments to the the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

30 July, 2024

DWP confirms that tax credit claimants reaching state pension age on or after 1 November 2024 will now be in scope to be invited to claim universal credit

Department also advises stakeholders that a small number of terminally ill claimants may now receive migration notices to avoid a gap in support for those on tax credits and to inform the DWP's learning for those in receipt of ESA

30 July, 2024

Means-testing the winter fuel payment will leave as many as two million pensioners experiencing an ‘eating or heating dilemma’

Responding to Chancellor's announcement, Age UK highlights that more than one in three pensioners entitled to pension credit don't receive it, while many more are living only just above the poverty line

29 July, 2024

Government announces changes to winter fuel payment eligibility and outlines plans to bring together the administration of pension credit and housing benefit

Reforms outlined in Commons statement from Chancellor Rachel Reeves setting out a series of 'difficult decisions' to find 5.5 billion of savings this year and £8.1 billion next

29 July, 2024

Ed Pybus appointed as Chair of the Scottish Commission on Social Security

Former adviser with local citizens advice in Scotland and a welfare rights worker at the Child Poverty Action Group will take up his role in August 2024

29 July, 2024

DWP minister to meet Carers UK over ‘scandal’ of carer’s allowance overpayments

Presenting widespread evidence of the 'shocking' impact of overpayments on carers' lives and their ability to do paid work, Carers UK says situation 'simply cannot continue'

26 July, 2024

Government says it will be ‘considering our own approach to social security’ in due course

Minister also confirms that the government will be engaging with responses to the previous government's consultation on PIP reform which closed this week

26 July, 2024

Welsh Government announces £36 million in funding for advice services over next three financial years

Funding will provide stability for services during period when more people need their help, says Minister

25 July, 2024

‘Fast moving’ policy environment requiring regular changes to DWP’s Move to UC guidance does not outweigh public interest in its disclosure

Information Commissioner's Office requires Department to release guidance, saying that appealing against procedural errors or understanding how a decision has been made is more difficult without it

24 July, 2024

Two-thirds of the public favour supporting claimants into work rather than applying strict and prescriptive job-seeking requirements

New Economics Foundation research also finds that current conditionality regime makes it less likely that people will get into good jobs and pushes many from engaging with the jobcentre at all

23 July, 2024

Commons votes against King’s Speech amendment calling for abolition of the two-child limit

Amendment defeated by 363 votes to 103, with 7 Labour MPs voting in its favour

23 July, 2024

DWP needs to be transformed from a department for welfare to become a ‘genuine’ department for work, says Work and Pensions Secretary

Liz Kendall says that a Getting Britain Working White Paper will lay the plans to 'kickstart' economic growth and reach an 80 per cent employment rate

23 July, 2024

Determining which EU Member State is competent to pay benefits for an economically inactive claimant where they have an economically active family member in another EU State

DWP issues guidance on the effect of the Court of Appeal's ruling in Harrington v SSWP