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22 December, 2010

DWP invites tenders for contracts to deliver Work Programme

Payment to be by results, with fees of up to £14,000 for hardest to help groups

22 December, 2010

Jobcentre Plus sets ‘benchmarks’ on number of sanctions to be issued by decision makers

DWP response to parliamentary question

22 December, 2010

Tackling child poverty and improving life chances

Government launches consultation on new child poverty strategy

21 December, 2010

Future Jobs Fund cancelled too soon to assess whether successful or cost effective

Work and Pensions Select Committee report also says transitional support for young unemployed needed ahead of Work Programme

20 December, 2010

Claimant and staff experiences of the WCA and WFHRA

New DWP research report

20 December, 2010

Rate of payment of bereavement benefits

New DWP guidance

20 December, 2010

Jobcentre Plus to issue claimants with food vouchers

New initiative in partnership with the Trussell Trust

17 December, 2010

Abolition of the health in pregnancy grant

Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Act 2010 receives Royal Assent

17 December, 2010

Government’s tax and benefit reforms set to increase child and working-age poverty

New Joseph Rowntree Foundation report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies

17 December, 2010

Ethnic minority claimants’ experiences of Jobcentre Plus services

New DWP research

17 December, 2010

Claimant and DWP staff perspectives on ‘voice risk analysis’ pilots

New DWP research into use of lie detector software in housing benefit and council tax benefit claims

16 December, 2010

Child maintenance reform in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

16 December, 2010

Operation of community care grant scheme is ‘inefficient and unfair’

Decision making errors are too common and administrative costs too high, says Public Accounts Committee

16 December, 2010

Gap between leaving prison and accessing benefits

New DWP research report

15 December, 2010

Changes to social fund maternity payments

New HB guidance

15 December, 2010

New power to pay LHA direct to landlords will only be used where rent is reduced to 'affordable level'

Written answer to parliamentary question by Minister for Welfare Reform

14 December, 2010

Rate of payment of bereavement benefits in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

13 December, 2010

Alcohol misusers’ experiences of employment and the benefit system

DWP publishes new research including estimates of numbers accessing benefits

9 December, 2010

Benefit uprating 2011/2012

New rates now available