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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

27 June, 2024

Information Commisioner’s Office orders HM Treasury to disclose data on the impact of the end of the £20 universal credit uplift

However, government has failed to comply with decision and is understood to be appealing against it

27 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Almost 9 in 10 low-income families on universal credit went without essentials in May 2024

JRF highlights that the number of families going without has not changed over the last year despite the 10.1 per cent benefit uprating in April 2023 and £900 cost of living payment

25 June, 2024

PCS announces three further periods of strike action by security guards in jobcentres

Dispute over pay will see staff employed by G4S take action during the week of the General Election and on into August

24 June, 2024

DWP again ordered to disclose equality impact assessment relating to policy decision to remove work capability assessments

Information Commissioner's Office orders department to publish information within 30 days, following previous decision concerning the same document

20 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Any policy change that limits increasing number of working-age health-related benefit claims without understanding the underlying drivers of the trend is ‘risky in the extreme’

Resolution Foundation also warns that curbing the £20 billion a year rise in spending expected by 2028/2029 must be a task for the NHS and employers, not just the Treasury and DWP

19 June, 2024

Number of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland increased in 2023/2024 following a record low in previous year

New Scottish Government statistics also highlight that CTR recipients saved around £850 a year on council tax on average, and almost 60 per cent were in one of the 30 per cent most deprived areas in Scotland

18 June, 2024

Almost 80,000 households in Great Britain had their benefits capped as at February 2024

New DWP statistics highlight that this represents a 4 per cent increase on the previous quarter