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30 April, 2014

DWP carrying out ‘commercial improvement programme’

Programme initiated after review found need to improve 'the capability and capacity of the Department’s commercial function and people'

30 April, 2014

Benefit reform and poor administration are major factors in creating demand for food parcels

New report from Citizens Advice Scotland finds that those most likely to need a food parcel are men, the unemployed, those unable to work due to disability, and those in local authority housing

29 April, 2014

Government announces details of the further roll out of universal credit

Further expansion will see new benefit introduced across the NW of England from June 2014

29 April, 2014

Further analysis needed to assess the cumulative impact of welfare reform, says SSAC

New report recommends that government produces analysis of cumulative impact on vulnerable groups and considers whether these need to be mitigated

29 April, 2014

Carer’s allowance weekly earnings limit increased to £102 in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

29 April, 2014

Introduction of increased conditionality for lone parent claimants

New DWP guidance

28 April, 2014

Work Programme funding model offers a minimal service and poor employment outcomes for ESA claimants

New report from Inclusion says that, without reform, the model is set up to fail

28 April, 2014

New measures introduced for ‘pre-Work Programme’ jobseeker’s allowance claimants

Changes include day one conditionality and mandatory English language training

28 April, 2014

Long term unemployed could be required to attend a jobcentre every day under new 'Help to Work' scheme

New rules being introduced today will also provide scope for claimants to be required to undertake 6 month unpaid work placements

28 April, 2014

Introduction of increased conditionality for lone parent claimants

New statutory instrument

24 April, 2014

635,000 claimant commitments have been signed by jobseekers

New DWP statistics also confirm that the claimant commitment for jobseekers has now been rolled out to 714 jobcentres across Britain

23 April, 2014

Atos’s WCA contract to end in February 2015

Contractor also reports that the 'ramp-up' of its PIP contract has offset the revenue decrease on WCA

22 April, 2014

1.75m of poorest families have had benefits cut due to welfare reforms

New briefing from Oxfam and New Policy Institute calls on government to instate 'absolute minimum' level of support regardless of local authority or tenure

17 April, 2014

Amendment to the definition of service users in housing benefit regulations

New DWP bulletin

17 April, 2014

Pension credit claimants to be ‘encouraged’ to claim by telephone

DWP update following successful tests in Dundee and Motherwell Pension Centres

17 April, 2014

Labour Party sets out how it would reform the work capability assessment

'Abundantly clear' that at the moment it isn’t working, say shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and shadow Minister for Disabled People

16 April, 2014

4,640 people on universal credit caseload at end of January 2014

New DWP statistics also show that nearly 7 in 10 of the caseload are under 25

16 April, 2014

Trussell Trust reports 163 per cent rise in use of foodbanks

83 per cent of foodbanks surveyed reported benefits sanctions have caused more people to be referred

15 April, 2014

Miscellaneous amendments to social security regulations

New DWP guidance