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23 July, 2009

Best practice in simplifying the benefit system

New DWP Guide sets out how complexity can occur and provides advice on how to avoid it

22 July, 2009

£2.7bn lost to benefit fraud and error last year

National Audit Office qualifies DWP's accounts for 20th consecutive year

22 July, 2009

Tax credits and entitlement to free school meals in Wales

New statutory instrument

22 July, 2009

Rights and responsibilities contract between the DWP and claimants is ‘rather one sided’

New paper from the Social Security Advisory Committee

22 July, 2009

Government announces £10m pilot scheme to provide back-to-work support in community settings

New initiative to target 'mums who lose their jobs in the recession'

21 July, 2009

Miscellaneous amendments to means tested benefits

New DWP guidance

21 July, 2009

HB overpayments and excess CTB issues

New DWP guidance

21 July, 2009

Equalisation of state pension age from April 2010

New HB guidance

21 July, 2009

Effect of participation of ESA claimants in employment zone programmes

New DWP guidance

21 July, 2009

Disregarding child benefit and child care charges in the calculation of income

New housing benefit and council tax benefit regulations

21 July, 2009

Amendment of the child support collection and enforcement rules

New statutory instrument

15 July, 2009

Unemployment rises by more than 280,000 in the three months to May

However, government actions to help the unemployed are starting to work, says Minister

15 July, 2009

Exploring the work aspirations of disability living allowance recipients

New DWP research reports

15 July, 2009

DWP spending more than £80m a year on medical assessments

Expenditure part of ten-year contract with Atos Healthcare

14 July, 2009

Electronic medical certificates receive mixed response from GPs

New DWP research

14 July, 2009

‘Integrating’ disability benefits into a new system of social care

Government publishes care and support Green Paper

13 July, 2009

Management and administration of contracted employment programmes

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry

10 July, 2009

Working tax credit four-week run on, and entitlement whilst treated as being engaged in qualifying renumerative work

New statutory instrument

10 July, 2009

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to claims handling and decision making

New DWP guidance