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16 May, 2011

Claimants’ experience of the Future Jobs Fund

New DWP research finds that fund successful in preparing claimants for work

16 May, 2011

Abolition of contracting out of state additional pension from 6 April 2012

New statutory instruments

16 May, 2011

DWP information strategy and performance indicators

Consultation on transparency of information published

13 May, 2011

DWP to close 17 benefit processing centres and five contact centres, with threat to 2,400 jobs

In response, Public and Commercial Services Union calls plan 'deeply flawed and dangerous'

13 May, 2011

Number of children living in poverty to rise by 300,000 over next two years, according to Institute of Fiscal Studies

New research shows that projected rise will be largely due to cuts in benefits and tax credits

12 May, 2011

Legal challenge to housing benefit reforms to go ahead

CPAG granted permission to proceed with judicial review

12 May, 2011

Draft personal independence payment assessment to be tested on current recipients of DLA over summer

Result of tests to feed into revised draft regulations to be published in autumn

12 May, 2011

End of the Worker Registration Scheme

New HB Guidance

12 May, 2011

Child poverty figures for 2009/2010 down by two per cent on previous year

New statistics show that direct financial support for families improves children's wellbeing, says CPAG

12 May, 2011

Government was 'horrified' to discover sanctions target problem and 'put a stop to it immediately'

Minister for Employment says that Jobcentre Plus is much too focused on targets and goals

12 May, 2011

Human rights / failure to pay two bedroom rate where couple needed extra bedroom due to disabiity

CH/1334/2010

12 May, 2011

Personal independence payment to be subject to habitual residence test

Minister for Disabled People tells Welfare Reform Bill Committee that payment to be 'brought into line with other non-contributory benefits'

11 May, 2011

Charities recommend major changes to WCA for claimants with fluctuating conditions

New report to feed into Professor Harrington's independent review

11 May, 2011

HMRC exceeds £1bn fraud and error target for year up to March 2011

Chancellor tells parliament that figure up 60 per cent on last year

11 May, 2011

Role of Atos work capability assessment ‘downgraded’ in ESA decision making process

Minister for Employment says that decision makers also expected to look at other evidence and 'form a rounded view'

10 May, 2011

Centre for Social Justice report awards government 2/10 for support to families

Think-tank set up by Iain Duncan Smith warns that benefit cap will bring hardship to families and notes 'unfair and unfortunate anomaly' in child benefit restriction

10 May, 2011

Government to establish new Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission through Welfare Reform Bill

New clause to ensure that government decides on policy and Commission has power to hold it to account