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23 September, 2011

Routes onto employment and support allowance

New DWP research report finds that half of claimants were in work before claiming and that vast majority of those had been in employment most of their working lives

22 September, 2011

Crisis 'very disappointed' that changes to WCA have either not been implemented effectively or failed to make desired impact

Response to Professor Harrington's Year 2 call for evidence highlights effect of inaccurate assessments on homeless and vulnerable people

22 September, 2011

Local authorities to be allowed to carry over discretionary housing payment funding for 2011/2012 to 2012/2013

New housing benefit guidance

21 September, 2011

Government will do 'all it can' to help women most affected by rise in state pension age, says Pensions Minister

Minister also tells Liberal Democrat conference that welfare cuts have been exaggerated

21 September, 2011

Meaning of 'former partner' / whether regulation 9(1)(c) ultra vires or discriminatory for human rights purposes

CH/1073/2010

21 September, 2011

Additional evidence for WCA should be more routinely gathered and given more weight, says Disability Benefits Consortium

Response to Professor Harrington's Year 2 call for evidence also says that most advisers have seen no improvement in process in 2011

20 September, 2011

Data sharing for Healthy Start Scheme in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

19 September, 2011

Minister for Pensions confirms that reform of work capability assessment is needed

Atos assessment to play smaller role in decision making, says Steve Webb

19 September, 2011

Jobcentres, which are failing to identify barriers to work, should be scrapped and replaced by cross departmental organisation, says Policy Exchange

New report highlights that only 29 per cent of claimants happy with outcome of jobcentre experience

16 September, 2011

Whether arrears of child support income or capital / whether any overpayment arose through official error

CH/1868/2010

16 September, 2011

Nearly 300,000 single parents could go without child maintenance under government proposals, says Gingerbread

Finding from survey on charges for maintenance services

15 September, 2011

Committee stage of the Welfare Reform Bill to be held away from the main chamber of the House of Lords

Opposition peers describe situation as 'grave' and 'deeply disturbing'

14 September, 2011

Foster carers to benefit from new, flexible conditionality regime

New rules to be introduced with universal credit from 2013

14 September, 2011

Government announces new pilots to trial direct payments of housing benefit to social sector tenants

Change will help to close the gulf between being out of work and having a job, says Minister for Welfare Reform

14 September, 2011

Government needs to better understand the impact of means testing, learn from past experience and improve coordination between different benefits

New report from the National Audit Office

14 September, 2011

Welfare Reform Bill receives second reading in the House of Lords

Bill is 'a new dawn for welfare - one of fairness, responsibility and effective support', says Lord Freud

14 September, 2011

Jobseekers with poor English skills to be required to attend specialist training courses

Prime Minister highlights threat of benefit sanctions during visit to Work Programme provider

14 September, 2011

DWP announces organisational changes to Jobcentre Plus and the Pension, Disability and Carers Service

Two agencies to be brought under leadership of single Chief Operating Officer and to lose executive agency status from October 2011