23 June, 2015
22 June, 2015
Speech today follows yesterday's confirmation from Chancellor and Work and Pensions Secretary that government will go ahead with £12bn cuts to welfare
22 June, 2015
Proposals include full responsibility for all working-age benefits or flexibilities in universal credit delivery if working-age benefits are not to be devolved
22 June, 2015
Walter Rader to replace Karamjit Singh from 1 July 2015
19 June, 2015
New research shows that childcare costs are rising sharply, and one in five children with at least one working parent is growing up in poverty
18 June, 2015
Additionally, the work capability assessment is a 'benefit gateway' rather than the start of an 'employment plan' and will not change under universal credit
18 June, 2015
18 June, 2015
New DWP statistics also show that recent participants spent less than a third of their time on the Programme off benefit
18 June, 2015
Labour MP for Birkenhead elected winning 307 votes out of 611
17 June, 2015
New DWP statistics also show that 50 per cent of new claims led to an award compared with 77 per cent of DLA reassessed claims
17 June, 2015
New report also recommends removing 'perverse incentive' to claim ESA by reducing the rate for those in the work related activity group to that of JSA
17 June, 2015
'Expanding massively the scope of conditionality and sanctions is an alarming prospect', says the New Policy Institute
17 June, 2015
Fall reflects reduction in the Bank of England's measure of household mortgage rates
17 June, 2015
New DWP statistics also show that, while 110,890 have claimed universal credit, only 74,120 have actually made a start on the benefit
16 June, 2015
However, new statistics highlight a 4.8 per cent decrease in the number of recipients since the scheme was introduced in April 2013
15 June, 2015
New DWP guidance
15 June, 2015
Deputy First Minister also calls for transfer of responsibility for employment programmes and Jobcentre Plus
12 June, 2015
New research looks at how local schemes can be designed to protect both the revenue of local authorities and the incomes of their least well-off residents
11 June, 2015
Fundamental principle is that social security is not designed to provide cover for moving between jobs or brief spells of unemployment, says government
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