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5 March, 2024

Leaders of more than 170 councils call for urgent extension to Household Support Fund

Letter to Chancellor, published ahead of tomorrow's Budget, expresses concern that ending the fund on 31 March will create a cliff-edge in provision for communities that councils will not be able to fill

5 March, 2024

Social security benefits uprating 2024/2025

New statutory instrument

5 March, 2024

Offsetting carer support payment from arrears of other social security benefits

New statutory instrument

5 March, 2024

Civil society organisations warn that plans for mass surveillance of millions of bank accounts to spot potential benefit fraud are a ‘hammer blow’ to privacy in the UK

Letter to ministers is 'biggest call yet' to scrap the plans that campaigners say are unnecessary, disproportionate and ineffective

5 March, 2024

Retention of habitual residence for victims of forced marriage or transnational marriage abandonment

New DWP guidance

5 March, 2024

Social Security Scotland introduces new text and email update service to let claimants know how their applications for adult or child disability payments are progressing

New service launched this month in response to feedback from claimant survey

4 March, 2024

Labour will have a ‘relentless focus’ on helping more people get work and get on at work, says Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary

Liz Kendall says that while the government's 'empty rhetoric' and 'failure to get to grips with welfare' is there for all to see, a Labour government would choose a different path

4 March, 2024

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into government’s progress in supporting disability employment

MPs seek views on effectiveness of government’s recent efforts to narrow the disability employment gap, and how disabled people can be better supported to start and stay in work

4 March, 2024

DWP and Social Security Scotland start transferring carer’s allowance awards made to people living in Scotland to carer support payment

Department confirms that transfers commenced on 26 February 2024, and that people who currently get carer's allowance do not need to take any action

4 March, 2024

Scottish Social Justice Minister calls on UK Government to increase reserved benefits to match the level of support provided by Scottish child payment

Letter to Work and Pensions Secretary highlights that Scottish support for children amounts to around £25,000 by the time they are 16 compared to less than £2,000 in equivalent support in England and Wales

1 March, 2024

Only around 1,000 of the tax credits claimants who were sent a universal credit migration notice in the first nine months of 2023 were granted an extension to the claim deadline

Written answer from DWP Minister also confirms that data on proportion of requests for deadline extension that were granted 'is not held centrally'

1 March, 2024

DWP confirms closure of a further 42 temporary jobcentres in sixth phase of decommissioning programme   

Minister also advises MPs that the remaining 12 sites of the 194 originally opened in response to the Covid-19 pandemic will be either decommissioned or absorbed into the estate in the coming months

1 March, 2024

National insurance earnings limits and thresholds for 2024/2025

New statutory instrument

1 March, 2024

Two thirds of those referred to the Work and Health Programme have started on the programme

New data published by the DWP also highlights that 46 per cent of starters achieved first earnings from employment within 24 months and 31 per cent achieved a job outcome

1 March, 2024

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes universal credit, benefit cap and PIP statistics for period to November 2023

New figures show that more than half of universal credit claimants were in the 'no work requirements' conditionality regime, the highest proportion since roll-out

29 February, 2024

Most households claiming tax credits have been able to make the transition to universal credit successfully with minimal support, according to the DWP

New analysis published further to the NAO having said earlier this week that more needs to be done to understand why one in five legacy benefit claimants are not switching under managed migration

29 February, 2024

Tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance uprating 2024/2025

New statutory instrument

29 February, 2024

Increase in rates of compensation paid under the scheme established by the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979

New statutory instrument

29 February, 2024

Reciprocal arrangements in the field of social security between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar

New regulations issued in Northern Ireland

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