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28 June, 2012

DWP carries out 46 investigations of fraud in Welfare to Work programmes between May 2010 and June 2012

Minister for Employment says that, of those, six had evidence of procedural non-compliance and seven showed false representation.

28 June, 2012

Help with NHS costs for students

New statutory instrument

27 June, 2012

Prescription of lung cancer in coke oven workers as industrial disease

New statutory instrument

27 June, 2012

Youth Contract wage subsidy brought forward from nine to six months in youth unemployment 'hot spots'

Jobcentres will be able to make use of subsidy before referring to Work Programme, says Nick Clegg

27 June, 2012

Compulsory revision before appeal ‘must not act as barrier to justice’, says AJTC

New report also expresses concern that DWP work on error has lacked impetus that has been given to fraud

27 June, 2012

Jobseeker’s allowance for members of reserve forces

New statutory instruments

27 June, 2012

Child maintenance reform

New Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 commencement order

26 June, 2012

Response to Prime Minister’s suggestion that housing benefit could be cut for those aged under 25

Leading housing organisations express concern

26 June, 2012

Government announces new £14m ‘Innovation Fund’ to help separating parents

Interventions, including counselling, mediation and advice, to be delivered 'outside of government'

26 June, 2012

Government to amend jobseeker's allowance rules to allow attendance at reserve forces training camp without break in claim

Change will allow Jobcentre Plus to actively encourage claimants to join Territorial Army, says Iain Duncan Smith

25 June, 2012

‘Really big arguments’ for future of welfare lie in working-age benefits, says David Cameron

Speech today suggests possible cuts to housing benefit for under 25s, revision of benefit level after period of receipt and change to uprating provisions

25 June, 2012

Notifications of deaths by registrars to DWP

New statutory instrument

22 June, 2012

Government urged to map the real life, cumulative impact of its welfare reforms

Human cost of austerity is being overlooked, warns new report from Demos and Scope

22 June, 2012

Supporting claimants seeking voluntary and temporary employment opportunities during the Olympics

New DWP guidance

22 June, 2012

DWP issues household benefit cap update

New guidance provided to local authority housing benefit departments

20 June, 2012

Whether landlord providing support to tenant to exempt accommodation from rent restrictions

CH/1344/2011

20 June, 2012

Government announces continued support for Social Security Advisory Committee

Review finds that Committee's functions are 'integral to improving the quality of policy making and of secondary legislation in the DWP'

18 June, 2012

No couple penalty in benefit system, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

New report concludes that it would be misguided to base benefit reform on idea that couples with children being incentivised to split up

18 June, 2012

DWP publishes draft universal credit and benefit cap regulations

In addition, SSAC seeks views on coherence of package and unintended consequences