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9 May, 2006

Helping claimants in temporary accommodation back into employment

Working Future project beginning to deliver successes, reports DWP

9 May, 2006

Electronic benefit claims in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

8 May, 2006

JSA sanctions in the Intensive Activity Period 50 to 59 pilot areas

New DWP guidance

8 May, 2006

Incapacity benefit reforms risk turning a complex system into a maze of bureaucracy

New report from the Work and Pensions Select Committee

5 May, 2006

Sure start maternity grants for children under a Residence Order

Government to amend legislation

5 May, 2006

Benefits for low skilled jobseekers in full time education

Government announces new rules in pilot areas

4 May, 2006

Commitment to means-testing needs to be abandoned if pensions reform to be successful

Pensions Commission chair calls for restoration of link with earnings

4 May, 2006

‘Tough and demanding’ year ahead for the DWP

But Permanent Secretary confident that staff will rise to the challenge

3 May, 2006

IT failure leaves thousands of claimants without money

Post offices across the UK affected

3 May, 2006

Automatic recovery of tax credit overpayments is practical, efficient and fair

Government response to Select Committee report

2 May, 2006

Right to reside for means-tested benefit purposes

New DWP guidance

2 May, 2006

Joseph Rowntree calls for review of attendance allowance and the uses to which it is put

New report on funding of long-term care

2 May, 2006

DWP staff begin two-day strike

Union calls for assessment of the impact of the government's job cuts programme

28 April, 2006

Industrial injuries benefit and interstitial fibrosis in coalworkers

New Industrial Injuries Advisory Council position paper

28 April, 2006

Help with NHS Costs in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

27 April, 2006

Tax credit rules amended to end ‘double provision’

New statutory instrument

27 April, 2006

DWP needs to take vigorous action to tackle benefit complexity, says Public Accounts Committee

System increasingly 'arcane, unwieldy and baffling'

26 April, 2006

Treasury Select Committee calls for more information on government measures to eradicate child pover

Analysis also needed of the impact of marginal tax rates faced by low income families

25 April, 2006

State pension reforms to be included in Queen’s Speech

But other Turner Commission proposals to be delayed