Welfare rights news

13 September, 2023

DWP confirms next steps in Universal Support programme as part of policy to move more long-term sick and disabled people into employment

Department says new 'wraparound' in-work support scheme will help 25,000 people move into or towards work by September 2024

12 September, 2023

Government rejects SSAC recommendation that new style JSA and ESA should be integrated into universal credit

Committee nevertheless urges government to continue to look for ways to combine the operation of the separate systems that could deliver many of the improvements it has identified

12 September, 2023

DWP to pilot scheme capping rent liability of young people in supported housing who start work or increase their hours

Pilot announced as one of six projects to understand barriers to getting into work awarded total of £12.4 million through Labour Market Evaluation and Pilots Fund

12 September, 2023

TUC’s 2023 Congress passes motion calling for immediate and permanent uplift to benefit rates, and for sanctions and conditionality to be scrapped

Following a debate about social security at its annual conference, Congress also calls for the abolition of the Minimum Income Floor and a review of how the system treats atypical workers

12 September, 2023

DWP provides update on its plans for ‘providing more digital services with a human touch’

Minister confirms creation of 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Lighthouse Programme' to guide Department's use of emerging AI technology

12 September, 2023

One in six households in Northern Ireland is in poverty, with a further one in ten at risk of entering poverty

Department for Communities analysis also shows that lone-parent households have the highest proportion of households in or at risk of falling into poverty

8 September, 2023

DWP confirms expansion of universal credit managed migration discovery phase from tax credits only claimants to claimants of other legacy benefits from September 2023

Move designed to support preparation to migrate households on different combinations of legacy benefits at scale in the financial year ending March 2025

8 September, 2023

DWP to roll out secure email process for local authorities to share care home admissions and funding information for DLA claimants

Information transfer process that has been operating for attendance allowance claimants since April 2023 will start to be used for working-age DLA claimants from 11 September 2023

7 September, 2023

DWP making ‘corrections’ to how it calculates earnings for couples where one is ‘gainfully self-employed’ and the other has earnings

In a journal message to affected claimants, DWP says 'most people in this situation will find that their payment goes down'

7 September, 2023

Universal credit managed migration to roll out to South East Wales and Central Scotland in October 2023

DWP shares details of the latest areas where it will start issuing migration notices to tax credit only claimants, and says it will confirm the expansion areas for November later this month

7 September, 2023

Proposed reforms to WCA are ‘clearly’ part of government’s efforts to cut public spending

Resolution Foundation highlights that, if government's sole aim was to boost back-to-work support for people with disabilities, then it could have done so without cutting levels of benefits

7 September, 2023

Disregarding infected blood compensation payments made to a person other than the infected person in the calculation of means-tested benefits

New DWP guidance

6 September, 2023

While newly identified housing benefit overpayments had been decreasing following introduction of universal credit, they have shown a steady rise over the last two years

However, new DWP statistics highlight that redeployment of staff away from debt recovery to frontline activities and restricted face-to-face activity during the pandemic may have reduced identification in the preceding period

5 September, 2023

Government launches consultation on changes to WCA designed to reduce number of claimants in ‘limited capability for work-related activity’ group

Views sought on removing, amending or reducing points for four WCA activities and removing or amending 'substantial risk' provisions

5 September, 2023

Social Justice Secretary outlines steps Scottish Government will take over coming parliamentary year to tackle poverty and inequality

Commitments outlined in new Programme for Government include inflationary increase in Scottish child payment, funeral support payment and all disability and carers benefits, and support to enable at least 40,000 people to access free debt advice

5 September, 2023

DWP Minister outlines criteria to be used for the new severe disability group that will be subject to a simplified disability benefit assessment process

Criteria will be based on the impact of a disability or health condition and will include conditions that are lifelong, have a significant effect on day-to-day life and are unlikely to improve

5 September, 2023

More than a million households in receipt of universal credit have deductions of at least 20 per cent of the standard allowance

Figures provided by DWP Minister also show that more than 200,000 households had deductions of 25 per cent or above

5 September, 2023

Disregarding infected blood compensation payments made to a person other than the infected person in the calculation of universal credit

New DWP guidance

5 September, 2023

While social security policy appears to focus on avoiding destitution as a minimum, almost a third of people in poverty are in fact in deep poverty

To be effective at alleviating poverty, any strategy must be underpinned by a 'comprehensive, sustainable and fair social contract', says Poverty Strategy Commission

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