23 November, 2022
23 November, 2022
However, Minister tells Parliament that claimants who are struggling with rate of deductions should contact DWP so that a 'lower repayment rate can be negotiated as appropriate'
23 November, 2022
Department also confirms that the £300 pensioner cost of living payment is being issued from today alongside this year's winter fuel payment
21 November, 2022
New statutory instrument
21 November, 2022
Department advises that universal credit will be the first benefit to go live on the platform 'early next year'
18 November, 2022
Written statement to Parliament on outcome of annual statutory review of benefit and state pension rates and periodic statutory review of benefit cap
18 November, 2022
18 November, 2022
New DWP guidance advises that applications from those who repaid a hardship payment must be made by 19 June 2023 at the latest
18 November, 2022
New Scottish Government statistics also show that almost 44,000 children were receiving the new benefit at the end of September 2022
17 November, 2022
Measures in today's Autumn Statement also include delaying managed migration of ESA claimants to universal credit until 2028, and increased conditionality for 600,000 in-work universal credit claimants
17 November, 2022
However, Council finds insufficient evidence ‘at this time’ to extend prescription to other occupations or to include the effects of long Covid
17 November, 2022
Minister tells Parliament that Covid-19-related pause is being extended in light of 'unprecedented levels' of new claims for PIP
16 November, 2022
SSAC sets out recommendations for how the current benefits structure could be changed to overcome people’s financial concerns about moving towards employment
16 November, 2022
New report finds that, taken together, the three measures would lead to more than a million children and adults being lifted from poverty
15 November, 2022
New DWP statistics also show that proportion of claimants who are in conditionality groups subject to sanction has fallen to lowest level across whole statistical timeseries
15 November, 2022
Written answer clarifies position after the Work and Pensions Secretary declined to rule out the measure earlier this month
15 November, 2022
JRF estimates that extending £1,300 per year payment to the rest of the UK would benefit more than 5 million children
15 November, 2022
More than half a million households had nil awards as a result of adjustments such as sanctions or the benefit cap or because of recent earnings changes
14 November, 2022
New statutory instrument
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