29 September, 2023
28 September, 2023
Writing to stakeholders, Department advises that test will run until January 2024 with a maximum of 250 claimants having their assessments conducted by an HCP with experience in their condition
28 September, 2023
However new statistics do not provide any information on waiting times, despite concerns having been raised about delays in assessments and approvals under the scheme putting people’s jobs at risk
28 September, 2023
Pre-manifesto approved at Party's Conference this week includes commitments to increase benefit levels, maintain the triple lock for pensioners and replace sanctions with an incentive-based scheme to help people into work
28 September, 2023
Recommendations include introduction of a Welsh instalment-based payment for low-income households that include a child or a person with a disability
28 September, 2023
New statutory rules revoke and re-enact provisions for 2023/2024 that would otherwise cease to have effect
27 September, 2023
27 September, 2023
New statutory rules revoke and re-enact provisions for 2023/2024 that would otherwise cease to have effect
26 September, 2023
Following completion of a 'discovery phase', Department for Communities says migration notices will begin to be issued from 16 October 2023
25 September, 2023
Expansion means support will now be offered to up to 30,000 young people who the DWP sees as further away from the labour market
25 September, 2023
Minister sets out whether departments have yet delivered, and also on how the government proposes to take forward commitments that were paused to comply with 2022 High Court judgment
25 September, 2023
New statutory instrument
25 September, 2023
New statutory rule
22 September, 2023
Department also commits to introducing mandatory two-day mental health training for frontline staff as part of government's five-year strategy for suicide prevention in England
22 September, 2023
Department says that it wants to ensure claimants who can work are supported to do so and 'reassessments help us do that'
21 September, 2023
Latest British Social Attitudes report also finds that more than a third of people think the government should spend more on welfare benefits for the poor, even if it leads to higher taxes
21 September, 2023
New statutory instrument also makes minor amendments in relation to second adult rebate, non-dependant deductions and residence rules
20 September, 2023
New statutory instrument
20 September, 2023
DWP adds that, to qualify for the £300 payment, claimants must have been in receipt of a qualifying benefit in the period between 18 August and 17 September 2023
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