25 August, 2022
25 August, 2022
First instalment of £650 payment from HMRC to follow payment having been made to recipients of DWP benefits in July 2022
25 August, 2022
Letter to DWP's Chief Statistician expresses disappointment that Department is 'tolerating this significant data gap' given wealth of data around need for transparency on WCA outcomes
25 August, 2022
Crisis calls for government to 'urgently invest in housing benefit' in light of research showing that less than one in eight properties are now affordable to poorest households
25 August, 2022
Letter to Chancellor and Work and Pensions Secretary raises particular concerns for PIP and DLA claimants who are only eligible for ‘pitiful’ £150 payment
23 August, 2022
DWP confirms that £150 will be paid automatically and the vast majority of those eligible should receive it 'by the beginning of October'
22 August, 2022
22 August, 2022
Response to consultation advises that the decision is in line with the government’s commitment to doing more to prevent and detect fraud and that fraud will remain the focus of the NFI in coming years
22 August, 2022
DWP issues guidance on transfers to and new claims for the new disability benefit in Scotland
19 August, 2022
However, updated Accounting Officer Assessment concludes that, despite number of expected participants falling from more than one million to around 700,000, programme will still deliver value for money
18 August, 2022
Guidance issued in response to recent judicial consideration of the issue in the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber case of Agbabiaka
18 August, 2022
Audit Scotland confirms that reduction from £2.8 million identified in 2018/2019 is due to omission of matches between payroll or pensions and housing benefit which are now carried out by DWP's VEP Alerts service
17 August, 2022
Department's failings likely to have impacted on many vulnerable people, says PHSO's Chief Executive Officer
16 August, 2022
New DWP statistics also show that almost 60,000 adverse decisions were made in March 2022, a substantial increase from the 38,000 decisions made in January 2022
16 August, 2022
New DWP statistics also show that, while the number of people claiming the benefit rose exponentially at the start of the pandemic, it has remained relatively stable since then
15 August, 2022
However, DWP adds that it does not expect to have any further announcements on 'discovery locations' over the summer
15 August, 2022
Deficiency in uprating methodology has created a 'policy headache', and government would do well to shift to increasing benefits using a more recent measure of inflation, says IFS
15 August, 2022 Open access
TUC says government's failure to compensate workers in high-risk occupations is ‘out of step’ with current data and policy responses of other countries
12 August, 2022
TUC launches plan for action that includes recommendations to bring forward benefit and minimum wage uprating to October 2022 and to cancel the increase in the energy cap
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