5 December, 2023
5 December, 2023
CPAG highlights qualitative research which shows that, in some cases, misunderstandings have left claimants worse off financially, and says there is 'considerable room for improvement in this area'
5 December, 2023
Response to FOI request includes updated general guidance and new guidance on the types of primary evidence that can be used to prove a claimant's identity
4 December, 2023
However, Department fails to address questions raised by advisers as more people have started to be subject to the managed migration process
4 December, 2023
While NAO Auditor General qualifies opinion on regularity of DWP's Social Fund Account for 2022/2023 as a result, he says that positive progress has been made in responding to the issue
1 December, 2023
However, responding to peers' concerns about the new sanctions policy, DWP Minister says that claimants who have more severe health conditions and vulnerabilities will be excluded from the new policy
1 December, 2023
1 December, 2023
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v GK
[2023] UKUT 273 (AAC)
UA-2023-SCO-000065-ESA
30 November, 2023
Civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch says proposals do away with long-standing democratic principle that state surveillance should follow suspicion rather than vice versa and set an 'incredibly dangerous precedent'
30 November, 2023
DWP Minister also confirms that the majority of the remainder are telephone appointments, with less than 5 per cent held by video
30 November, 2023
Progress report on LEAP exercise shows that more than 80,000 underpayments have been identified so far
30 November, 2023
New statutory rules
30 November, 2023
New statutory rule
29 November, 2023
Despite the Chancellor appearing to say that there will be a Fund next year, parliamentary written answer advises that it is 'under review in the usual way'
29 November, 2023
Department 'must expand its focus to genuinely put claimants right at the heart of this work', says Committee's Deputy Chair
29 November, 2023
New statutory instruments
29 November, 2023
New figures show that almost half of universal credit claimants were in the 'no work requirements' conditionality regime, the highest proportion since roll-out
28 November, 2023
Department says by the end of 2023/2024 it will have met its target to have issued migration notices to all claimants in receipt of tax credits only
28 November, 2023
However, Minister advises that discretionary housing payments can be paid to claimants who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs
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