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23 February, 2012

115,000 claimants in Scotland will lose entitlement to sickness benefits as result of migration from IB to ESA

New report from Citizens Advice Scotland also says that those claimants will struggle to make up loss of benefit income through finding employment

23 February, 2012

Benefits worth £3.2bn overpaid due to fraud and error in 2010/2011

However, new DWP statistics also show underpayments of £1.2bn

22 February, 2012

Local housing allowance rates to be frozen for one year from April 2012

New HB guidance

22 February, 2012

Reciprocal agreements and the transition from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance

New statutory instrument

22 February, 2012

Role and impact of bereavement benefits

New DWP research report recommends removing regular payment and replacing it with larger lump sum to be paid in instalments

22 February, 2012

Second Lords Welfare Reform Bill amendment on ‘bedroom tax’ overturned in Commons

Government says it cannot afford the £100m the amendment would cost

21 February, 2012

Risk to health in being found capable of work / application of Charlton

CE/343/2011

21 February, 2012

332,000 claimants accepted on to Work Programme from June to October 2011

New DWP statistics also show that, of those, 94.6 per cent were on jobseeker's allowance and 5.1 per cent on employment and support allowance

21 February, 2012

Work experience scheme is not a labour replacement exercise, says Chris Grayling

Minister for Employment defends scheme in light of 'bad headlines'

20 February, 2012

MPs caution that mistakes with WCA should not be repeated with PIP

New Work and Pensions Committee report says that new benefit should not be introduced nationally until government has satisfied itself that assessment is empathetic and accurate

20 February, 2012

DWP launches online social justice survey to find out how it can 'help support the work of local organisations'

Department says it is particularly interested in hearing from people working in the voluntary, community or charity sector

20 February, 2012

Tesco asks government to remove sanctions from work experience scheme

Supermarket chain responds to public concern that it is profiting from use of jobseekers as subsidised labour

20 February, 2012

Requiring jobseeker's allowance claimants who have just been released from prison to enter the Work Programme

New statutory instrument

17 February, 2012

DWP proposes no time limit on compulsory work experience for people in work related activity group

Mental health professionals and disability groups express concern that people with serious health problems face unlimited unpaid work or sanctions

16 February, 2012

24,010 claimants referred for mandatory work activity between May and November 2011

New DWP statistics also show that 34,200 claimants referred for work experience between January and November 2011, with differences in gender and racial backgrounds of those referred to each scheme

16 February, 2012

Sanction of up to two weeks for jobseekers who fail to attend interviews or appointments in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

15 February, 2012

Amendment of statement of reasons in response to leave to appeal application / use of Medical Research Council's dyspnoea (or breathlessness) scale

CDLA/86/2011

15 February, 2012

Government loses further vote on ‘bedroom tax’ in House of Lords

However DWP says that Welfare Reform Bill amendment will be reversed in Commons