12 July, 2011
12 July, 2011
Response includes commitment to reduced application charge for parents on benefits, and no charge for victims of domestic violence
12 July, 2011
Comptroller and Auditor General finds 'material levels of error' in discretionary social fund, funeral payments and, for first time, cold weather payments
11 July, 2011
Government seeks views on whether support should be focused on the individual through schemes like Access to Work, rather than institutions like Remploy
11 July, 2011
Charity also tells MPs that it can see no advantages to localisation of council tax benefit
8 July, 2011
CH/107/2010
8 July, 2011
8 July, 2011
'If you are fiddling the system, you will be caught', says Lord Freud
8 July, 2011
Minister for Employment announces small scale trial to see if extra support increases success in finding and keeping employment
7 July, 2011
CH/1312/2010
6 July, 2011
New DWP research also finds that more than two thirds think they will make shorter awards
5 July, 2011
HM Courts & Tribunals Service annual statistics for 2010/2011 also show that, overall, 35 per cent of appeals found in favour of claimant
5 July, 2011
Minister for Employment says that government expects to see substantial indications of success of programme from spring 2013
4 July, 2011
New Work and Pensions Committee report also says that proposals to charge for maintenance services are excessive, complex and fall too heavily on parents with care
4 July, 2011
Letter of claim says that government has failed to measure negative impact of changes and that they do not comply with Equality Act
4 July, 2011
Leaked letter also says that cap, alongside other housing benefit changes, will lead to 40,000 families being made homeless
1 July, 2011
New statutory instrument
1 July, 2011
Pensions Minister announces change to social fund directions
29 June, 2011
New DWP reseach report on Flexible New Deal commissioning
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