23 May, 2024
23 May, 2024
Research report reveals success rates of five employment support programmes and highlights problems encountered by Jobcentre staff and claimants
23 May, 2024
However, CPAG Scotland says that, while commitment is welcome, it must be backed by concrete policies and investment on a scale well beyond that set out in Mr Swinney's statement
22 May, 2024
EHRC says it suspects that successive Secretaries of State may have breached Equality Act duties by failing to make reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities or long-term mental health conditions during WCA and PIP assessment process
22 May, 2024
CU v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] UKUT 32 (AAC)
UA-2023-1084-USTA
21 May, 2024
Letter to Senior DWP officials highlights impact on claimants and their advisers of Department's failure to provide standardised and detailed information about calculations, alongside guidance that is 'misleading and incomplete'
21 May, 2024
21 May, 2024
Delivering a speech at Kennington jobcentre, Secretary of State says new AI tool can analyse a claimant’s situation and work out the most powerful next best step for helping them into work
21 May, 2024
HS v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] UKUT 86 (AAC)
UA-2023-001137-PIP
21 May, 2024
JS v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] UKUT 90 (AAC)
UA-2022-000388-PIP
21 May, 2024
New adjudication circular sets out key provisions of the new devolved benefit and how these interact with housing benefit
20 May, 2024
'Caddy' designed to support advisers to find and share information from gov.uk and Adviceguide for the benefit of users of advice services
17 May, 2024
DWP Minister also confirms that women represent 68 per cent of those with an outstanding debt
17 May, 2024
Ipswich BC v TD and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] UKUT 117 (AAC)
UA-2021-000630-HB
16 May, 2024
Committee chair highlights lengthy delay and urgency for affected women and calls on government to act on Parliamentary Ombudsman recommendations before summer recess
16 May, 2024
New DWP figures also show that official error underpayments remained at around £1 billion, and that people could have claimed more than £3 billion more 'if they had provided accurate information about their circumstances'
16 May, 2024
Instead, Sir Geoffrey Vos says that the idea should be to make connections between the 'incredibly effective dispute resolution portals that private enterprise can create and has already created'
16 May, 2024
Report also makes clear that the Department was made aware three years ago that there was room to improve claimant understanding and possibly reduce mistakes leading to overpayments by improving its communications
15 May, 2024
However, Minister's evidence to Lords Committee fails to address its dissatisfaction with DWP's explanation for not publishing robust evidence to support previous increases in the threshold
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