17 May, 2024
16 May, 2024
Committee chair highlights lengthy delay and urgency for affected women and calls on government to act on Parliamentary Ombudsman recommendations before summer recess
16 May, 2024
New DWP figures also show that official error underpayments remained at around £1 billion, and that people could have claimed more than £3 billion more 'if they had provided accurate information about their circumstances'
16 May, 2024
Instead, Sir Geoffrey Vos says that the idea should be to make connections between the 'incredibly effective dispute resolution portals that private enterprise can create and has already created'
16 May, 2024
Report also makes clear that the Department was made aware three years ago that there was room to improve claimant understanding and possibly reduce mistakes leading to overpayments by improving its communications
15 May, 2024
However, Minister's evidence to Lords Committee fails to address its dissatisfaction with DWP's explanation for not publishing robust evidence to support previous increases in the threshold
15 May, 2024
15 May, 2024
Food charity reports that it distributed more than three million parcels last year, with more than a million of them going to children
14 May, 2024
However, new DWP statistics also show that 60 per cent of households that claimed universal credit have been awarded transitional protection
14 May, 2024
New DWP statistics also highlight that around 95 per cent of decisions are as a result of failure to attend or participate in a mandatory interview
14 May, 2024
Department for Communities also confirms that claimants in receipt of other legacy benefits will be issued with migration notices 'in the coming months'
13 May, 2024
New measures include using machine learning to detect and prevent fraudulent claims, as well as introducing a new Bill to enable benefit fraud to be treated like tax fraud
13 May, 2024
New statutory instrument
13 May, 2024
Carers NI says it is surely a 'no-brainer' for the Department to have a system in place to automatically intervene when a carer earns more than they’re allowed
10 May, 2024
Committee chair says investigation merited given the scale of the problem, the cost to the taxpayer of a system that fails to prevent or rectify overpayments, and the lack of progress being made to address the issue
10 May, 2024
Evaluation says that valuable lessons were learned despite the pilot having had very low uptake and being stopped before progressing to a full trial
10 May, 2024
Social Justice Minister says providing legislative consent ‘allows us to maintain the Agency Agreements for the delivery of social security payments in Scotland and safeguard the important work that Social Security Scotland does’
9 May, 2024
New statutory instrument
9 May, 2024
New statutory instrument
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