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9 June, 2011

DWP good example of how departments 'not always going about decentralisation in ways anticipated or asked for', say MPs

New report on localism by Communities and Local Government Select Committee

9 June, 2011

Contracting out functions under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

New commencement order in relation to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010

9 June, 2011

Government should double numbers using Access to Work

Independent report into disability employment support also finds that support should go to individuals, rather than institutions

8 June, 2011

Poorest of older housholds cut back on food in cold weather, according to Insitute for Fiscal Studies

New research also finds that labelling of winter fuel payment means that households spend 41 per cent of it on fuel, as opposed to 3 per cent if it were treated as cash

8 June, 2011

Automated Transfers to Local Authority Systems phase 1 to be rolled out nationally

Transfer of claimant award information between HMRC and local authorities to 'vastly reduce' benefit under and overpayments

7 June, 2011

Professor Harrington ‘pleased and gratified’ at DWP progress in improving the WCA

However new report highlights that disability charities are not seeing the same positive changes

6 June, 2011

Jobcentre Plus launches new support for those with a drug or alcohol dependency

New measures designed to help the estimated one in 15 people on benefits who are dependent on drugs or alcohol

3 June, 2011

Overpayment / whether claimant's partner was 'de facto' or 'shadow' director of company acting as her landlord

CH/2325/2010

2 June, 2011

Follow-up survey of employment and support allowance claimants

New DWP research report

1 June, 2011

Tribunal's power to alter statement of reasons / whether Upper Tribunal able to take into account reasons given without legal authority

CE/2444/2010

1 June, 2011

Claimant and DWP staff experiences and views of trial incapacity benefits reassessment

New DWP research report shows staff concerns that 'going the extra mile' in decision making process may have to be scaled back for national roll-out

1 June, 2011

Welfare reform already having devastating effect on hundreds of thousands of claimants, say mental health experts

Open letter to Guardian calls for shift to 'more sympathetic and supportive system'

31 May, 2011

Requiring ESA claimants to undertake work-related activity

New statutory instrument

31 May, 2011

Right to an independent grievance process needs to be an integral part of any replacement for the social fund

Social Fund Commissioner responds to government proposals to replace community care grants and crisis loans with 'local support'

27 May, 2011

Whether compensation to disabled claimant for death of mother when she was a child should be ignored as capital / whether failure to make special provision breached human rights

CIS/108/2010

27 May, 2011

Carer’s allowance eligibility rules are problematic for carers seeking paid employment or training

New DWP research report also finds that carers had experienced difficulties accessing carer's allowance and other support

26 May, 2011

Whether married couple living in same ‘household’

CIS/2127/2010

26 May, 2011

Evaluation of the extension of New Deal Plus for Lone Parents and In Work Credit

New DWP research reports

26 May, 2011

Statutory requirement for revision before appeal must not lead to further delays, says AJTC

Letter to Iain Duncan Smith about Clause 99 of Welfare Reform Bill