21 January, 2022
21 January, 2022
Public Accounts Committee recommendations include that DWP should upgrade its IT systems 'as a matter of urgency' and justify its decision not to pay compensation and interest to affected claimants
21 January, 2022
However, Department confirms that it is committed to meeting the informal and ‘implied’ overpayment level of 6.5 per cent for 2027/2028, as set out in the Universal Credit Business Case
21 January, 2022
Budget Scrutiny for 2022/2023 highlights 'downward pressure' on other budget lines caused by increasing cost of social security in Scotland
20 January, 2022
DWP Permanent Secretary also confirms that more than 40 cent of debts are between one and four years old
20 January, 2022
Minister advises that Department’s modernisation programme includes ‘reimagining the future of payments’ by considering use of ‘disruptive and alternative technologies’
20 January, 2022
19 January, 2022
Reclaiming motion by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs against Mr Ali Adnan and Mrs Saima Adnan [2022] ScotCS CSIH 2
19 January, 2022
Work and Pensions Committee chair welcomes commitment, that follows Permanent Secretary having previously said that the Department's current systems 'limit what we can do here'
19 January, 2022
New Social Security Scotland statistics also show that a third of claims have been either denied or withdrawn
19 January, 2022
Commission makes a series of recommendations including allowing more time for claimants to provide information before suspension of payment, and shortening the time limit for carrrying out reviews of decisions to suspend
19 January, 2022
Committee seeks views on how the system works for claimants who have only recently made national insurance contributions, and whether they should be treated more favourably
18 January, 2022
DWP alternative claimant count statistics also show that claimant numbers have dropped below 2 million for first time since the large Covid-19 related increase in claimants from March 2020
18 January, 2022
Increase reflects the OBR's forecast of gilt rates in its October 2021 fiscal outlook
18 January, 2022
Recommendation follows consideration of petition that calls for pilot's focus on care leavers to be expanded to include children, pensioners, working people and the unemployed
14 January, 2022
DWP provides first annual spend data that separates out childcare costs more than three years after first asked to do so by the Work and Pensions Committee
14 January, 2022
Scheme to provide eligible benefit claimants in Northern Ireland with a one-off £200 automatic payment by the middle of March 2022
13 January, 2022
New report recommends that DWP pays compensation of £7,500 to individual claimant and reconsiders decision not to issue 'blanket compensation' to all those affected
13 January, 2022
Committee Chair writes to NatCen Social Research to order report to be provided by 27 January 2022 in order that the 'reality of disabled people's experiences of the benefits system can see the light of day'
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