18 May, 2020 Open access
18 May, 2020 Open access
Written answer also lists helpline numbers for other claimants who have concerns about accessing their benefits during the coronavirus pandemic
15 May, 2020 Open access
New statutory instruments
15 May, 2020 Open access
Staff will be in place for three months and will add to existing resources, taking forward service design or policy issues raised by cases they deal with
15 May, 2020 Open access
New DMG Memo issued
15 May, 2020 Open access
Update to guidance for stakeholders and claimants
14 May, 2020
14 May, 2020 Open access
Job Retention Scheme would not have been necessary but for the 'inadequacy of the existing social security system'
14 May, 2020 Open access
Housing charity warns that capped households are not seeing increased support from higher universal credit and LHA rates introduced during the coronavirus crisis and, as a result, more households will ‘almost certainly’ be made homeless
14 May, 2020 Open access
Written answer confirms that more than 16,000 reconsiderations were cleared in March 2020, but less than 8,000 in April
14 May, 2020
Committee invites ideas on the impact of new technology on employment, how the role of jobcentres and the services it offers can adapt, and whether Universal Basic Income is an option to meet the needs of a changing labour market
14 May, 2020
Response to FOI request also says that if the claimant has a representative, the DWP will call them where its offer does not give the claimant everything they have asked for on appeal
14 May, 2020
New statistics also show that poverty rates have increased for individuals and working-age adults for the first time over the same period
13 May, 2020 Open access
LITRG also warns that scheme's online checker only checks some of the eligibility conditions and may give incorrect results
13 May, 2020
Existing process, that relied on email or postal system to complete managed payment requests, replaced by fully online service
13 May, 2020 Open access
Suspension 'will go some way to easing the financial difficulty that many find themselves in', says Communities Minister
12 May, 2020 Open access
Chancellor also announces that furloughed staff will be able to work part-time from August 2020, but that employers will be asked to start sharing the costs of paying people's salaries
12 May, 2020 Open access
New statistics show that more than 170,000 individual 'declarations' were made in week beginning 29 April 2020, as compared to just over 75,000 in week beginning 4 March
12 May, 2020 Open access
Responding to question in Parliament, Minister acknowledges that there had been an issue for some claimants, but that it has now been 'addressed'
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