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11 July, 2018

Timetable for managed migration of universal credit is a ‘viable plan’

Giving evidence to Select Committee, Director General of Universal Credit says process will start with a test phase in 2019, and by 2021 'will be going at the full lick'

10 July, 2018

Justin Tomlinson appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the DWP

Responsibilities include Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance

10 July, 2018

British Social Attitudes survey for 2017 finds attitudes are softening towards unemployed people

New research also finds that more people are becoming concerned about the damaging effects of welfare cuts

10 July, 2018

Tenants on universal credit are more than twice as likely to be in arrears compared to all other tenants

UK's housing federations also find that the universal credit system is 'flawed' and causing debt, suffering and hardship for housing association tenants

9 July, 2018

17 per cent of new claims for universal credit do not receive full payment on time

New DWP statistics also show that 10 per cent of new claims do not receive any payment on time

6 July, 2018

No plans to change PIP terminal illness rules in Northern Ireland

Department for Communities says instigating change in social security policy is the role of the Stormont Executive

5 July, 2018

MPs and peers react to Work and Pensions Secretary's 'unsatisfactory' and 'extraordinary' response to urgent question on universal credit

Secretary of State should be 'ashamed' and should resign, says Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary

4 July, 2018

Secretary of State apologises for 'inadvertently misleading' the House of Commons over NAO report on universal credit

NAO had not asked for faster rollout, but had actually said 'no practical alternative to continuing with universal credit'

4 July, 2018

Work and Pensions Secretary's universal credit statement to Parliament was 'not correct', says National Audit Office

Head of the NAO also says that 'it is odd' that the Secretary of State told Parliament that its report did not take account of the impact of recent changes to universal credit

4 July, 2018

Successful delivery of DWP's 'People and Locations Programme' is in doubt, says Infrastructure and Projects Authority

Urgent action needed to address problems and assess whether resolution is feasible, government advised

4 July, 2018

Additional amounts for children and qualifying young persons in pension credit awards in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule makes provision for additional amounts for children where claimants do not have a child tax credit award

4 July, 2018

Amendment of EEA residence provisions to account for CJEU judgments in Gusa, Lounes and Chavez-Vilchez

New statutory instrument

3 July, 2018

Government confirms process for reviewing PIP claims following Upper Tribunal decisions relating to Mobility Activity 1

All claimants who are reviewed will be notified of the outcome which will carry standard appeal rights

3 July, 2018

JRF calls for increased universal credit work allowances to help people towards a Minimum Income Standard

New report finds that the past decade has shown a deterioration in the ability of people without work or in lower-paid work to afford a minimum standard of living

2 July, 2018

NAO qualifies opinion on DWP accounts for 2017/2018 because of ‘material’ levels of fraud and error

Benefit overpayments and underpayments excluding state pension are at their highest estimated rates, says Comptroller and Auditor General

2 July, 2018

Automation of transition to universal credit housing payments will be in place by March 2019

DWP has agreed funding levels for Local Authority IT software suppliers to develop an automated solution

29 June, 2018

Eligibility for child benefit, tax credits and childcare payments for those granted leave under the ‘Dubs amendment’

New statutory instrument

29 June, 2018

Industrial injuries benefits for latex anaphylaxis and nasal carcinoma

New statutory instrument

28 June, 2018

Treatment of Scotland's new 'carer’s allowance supplement' in the assessment of council tax reduction

New statutory instrument