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10 February, 2020

DWP confirms work is underway to collect Internet Protocol address data from housing benefit claimants

New guidance says anti-fraud measure, currently only used for DWP benefits, could lead to significant savings by detecting claims from a single address or from abroad

7 February, 2020

NAO finds that the 69 suicide cases investigated by DWP in the last six years is ‘highly unlikely’ to represent number it could have investigated

New report highlights lack of robust record of contacts from coroners which may have led to internal reviews not being initiated

7 February, 2020

More than a fifth of people in the UK live in poverty, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

New report also finds that more than half of people in poverty are in a working family and almost half live in a household where someone is disabled

7 February, 2020

Scottish Government confirms that children will not need to attend face-to-face assessment to secure entitlement to Child Disability Payment

New position paper also confirms that parents, guardians and carers will be able to apply for new benefit online, in person or by phone

7 February, 2020

Scottish Government confirms that Disability Assistance for Older People will not include a mobility component

New position paper sets out decision based on financial impact, risk to passported benefits and risk of creating two-tier system

7 February, 2020

Low Incomes Tax Reform Group seeks evidence on HMRC’s use of compliance powers including to recover tax credit debt direct from bank accounts

Evidence will feed into evaluation of how HMRC is complying with principles of proportionality and consistency in the use of its powers

7 February, 2020

DWP to launch 12 week pension credit take-up campaign on 10 February 2020

Department says that campaign's 'key feature' is 30 second animated video which will be shown in GP surgeries and Post Offices

7 February, 2020

Uprating of war pensions for 2020/2021

New DWP guidance for housing benefit staff

6 February, 2020

Scottish Budget commits to delivery of social security assistance with total forecast expenditure of more than £3 billion in 2020/2021

Having won greater control over social security, this coming year will be 'truly transformational', says Minister for Public Finance

6 February, 2020

Welfare mitigation payments in Northern Ireland will not be interrupted if legislation to extend the measures beyond March 2020 is delayed

Minister for Communities says her Department is 'working to ensure' that there will be no gap in payments

6 February, 2020

National roll-out of NHS electronic prescription checking service will not cover exemption based on receipt of DWP benefits

NHS Digital advises that service only currently applies in respect of medical, maternity, low-income scheme and tax credit exemptions

6 February, 2020

Removal of end date for transitional addition to ESA linked to awards following entitlement to previous incapacity benefits

New statutory instrument

6 February, 2020

Welfare benefit uprating 2020/2021

DWP issues new guidance to local authority housing benefit staff

6 February, 2020

Number of benefit capped households on universal credit exceed those on housing benefit for the first time

New DWP statistics show that 40,000 of the 76,000 households capped at November 2019 had the cap applied to universal credit

5 February, 2020

Government says that £500 million cost of delay to universal credit roll-out is due to extra 900,000 claimants being eligible for transitional protection

This is additional money that will go into the pockets of 'our claimants', says DWP Minister Will Quince

5 February, 2020

UK Statistics Authority Chair agrees that PM’s claim that universal credit has already succeeded in getting 200,000 people into jobs was incorrect

Letter to Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary says the figure represents the DWP's estimate once universal credit is fully rolled out, not the current position

5 February, 2020

Northern Ireland Communities Minister ends practice of publishing names of people convicted of benefit fraud

Minister tells Northern Ireland Assembly that change is designed to remove the 'air of demonisation of poor families'

5 February, 2020

LHA rates now cover just 13 per cent of private rents

New research also finds that restoring LHA rates to 30th percentile would reduce number of households in temporary accommodation by more than 100,000

4 February, 2020

Full roll-out of universal credit delayed from December 2023 until September 2024

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that delay due to revised estimate that 900,000 fewer households than previously forecast will naturally migrate by end of 2023