28 January, 2020
28 January, 2020
Responses will be used to help the Department consider future options for how the benefit system supports people who are living with a terminal illness
28 January, 2020
Most common reason families say they applied for emergency funding was because their benefits or other income had been spent
27 January, 2020
New DWP guidance
27 January, 2020
Pilot commencing today will be used to gauge demand for services outside normal working hours including in relation to social security appeals enquiries
24 January, 2020
Minister for Welfare Delivery also tells parliament that just 10 universal credit claimants had debts waived in first three quarters of 2019/2020
24 January, 2020
24 January, 2020
Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds that just seven per cent of rentals will be affordable at the new rates compared to just under six per cent at current rates
23 January, 2020
StepChange highlights that DWP's debt collection practices would not meet basic regulatory standards required of consumer credit firms
23 January, 2020
With peers having decided not to challenge MPs' rejection of all other amendments proposed by the House of Lords, Bill receives Royal Assent
23 January, 2020
Scottish Government report on impact of UK Government's welfare reforms on disabled people also finds that a quarter of transition claims from disability living allowance result in no award
23 January, 2020
New statutory instrument
22 January, 2020
Minister for Welfare Delivery also confirms that proposals for next phase of universal credit delivery will be presented to parliament 'in the Autumn'
22 January, 2020
Recommendations to improve new payment rules set out in Scottish Social Security Commission’s scrutiny report on the draft Scottish Child Payment Regulations
22 January, 2020
'We need to protect those most in need and the poorest across our society', says Deirdre Hargey
21 January, 2020
Response to FOI request also shows that in the same month almost 1,000 claimants 'moved to an online claim'
21 January, 2020
Last of six day's debate of the Speech includes votes against proposals to highlight the government's failure to include measures to tackle poverty, scrap universal credit and the two child limit, and increase in-work benefits
21 January, 2020
Resolution Foundation finds that impact of universal credit is felt differently across the UK with areas with a high proportion of out-of-work, single parent and disabled families faring worse
21 January, 2020
Current rules mean that much of the bonus may be 'clawed back' through reduced benefit, says MP for Glasgow East
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