4 July, 2016
4 July, 2016
Committee seeks views on how HMRC and the DWP have addressed problems of overpayments and underpayments identified in its last report
4 July, 2016
New statutory rule
1 July, 2016
New report also recommends prioritising benefits advice, and challenging maladministration and use of sanctions in the UK benefits system
1 July, 2016
New statutory rules provide for 'welfare supplementary payments' to be made to claimants who lose disability or carer's benefits
1 July, 2016
Written submissions invited by 12 July 2016
30 June, 2016
30 June, 2016
New statutory instrument
29 June, 2016
Response to questions in the Northern Ireland Assembly confirms that just over £500 million has been put in place
29 June, 2016
New report recommends devolution of housing benefit, the Work and Health programme and jobseeker's allowance for 16 to 24 year-olds
28 June, 2016
New DWP statistics also reveal that only an estimated 50 per cent of those entitled to claim income-based JSA claimed the benefit in 2014/2015
28 June, 2016
Report from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also raises concerns over ‘absence of due process and access to justice’ in the use of benefit sanctions
28 June, 2016
New statistics from the DWP also find that the number of children living in poverty has increased to 19 per cent
28 June, 2016
MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth replaces Owen Smith
27 June, 2016
Owen Smith latest in a series of Shadow Cabinet and frontbench resignations over the weekend
24 June, 2016
Joint statement issued by leaders of European institutions confirms that there will be no renegotiation on the terms which included proposed benefit restrictions for EU migrants
23 June, 2016
However, responding to report from the Work and Pensions Committee, the government declines to send automatic state pension statements to all people aged 50 and over
23 June, 2016
New DWP statistics also highlight that the most recent participants to complete two years on the Work Programme spent on average around a third of their time off benefits
22 June, 2016
Response to Work and Pensions Committee also refuses to disregard widowed parent's allowance as unearned income in the calculation of universal credit
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