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17 December, 2014

Benefit uprating 2015/2016

DWP issues new HB guidance

17 December, 2014

DWP to close partially and fully compliant Child Support Agency cases simultaneously

Changes to Ending Liability scheme to allow 'on system' cases to be closed at the same time as those administered clerically

16 December, 2014

DWP announces £250m contract for continuation of Post Office Card Accounts

New contract ensures retention of valuable service for pensioners and benefit claimants and helps safeguard the future of the Post Office network, says Pensions Minister

16 December, 2014

DWP to make it clearer that evidence from care professionals can be valuable when assessing eligibility for ESA

New edition of Stakeholder Bulletin says that revised ESA50 form, which will list the types of evidence or information claimants could send, will be launched early in 2015

16 December, 2014

Almost 70 per cent of those affected by benefit cap report considerable barriers to employment

Research commissioned by DWP also finds that majority of affected claimants running out of money by the end of the week or month and borrowing from friends or family to cover the shortfall

16 December, 2014

Employment and support allowance and universal credit mobilising descriptors and use of a manual wheelchair

New DWP guidance following decision of Three-Judge Panel of the Upper Tribunal

15 December, 2014

Removing entitlement to winter fuel payments for those living in European countries with warmer climates

New statutory instrument provides that, from September 2015, those living in a country with an average winter temperature higher than that of the UK will no longer be entitled

15 December, 2014

Government announces £12m funding for pilots to help people with mental health problems find and stay in employment

Four pilot areas to test approaches that include provision of key workers and individual support packages for claimants

15 December, 2014

Employment and support allowance continence descriptors

New DWP guidance on changes to WCA Handbook following recent Upper Tribunal decision

15 December, 2014

Changes to legislation relating to same sex marriages and civil partnerships

New DWP guidance

15 December, 2014

Benefit cap is acting as an incentive to work, says DWP

Evaluation of policy's first year finds that movement into work is higher for households affected by cap than for similar households who are not affected

12 December, 2014

Whether 'space standards' are determinative as to whether a room is a bedroom for the purposes of the bedroom tax

DWP issues guidance following two recent Upper Tribunal decisions

11 December, 2014

People with mental health problems should be taken off mainstream back-to-work schemes, says Mind

New report calls for specialist programme as more than 80 per cent of those surveyed said that back-to-work support from Work Programme or Jobcentre Plus had made their mental health worse

11 December, 2014

86 per cent fewer ESA appeals in third quarter of 2014 compared to same period last year

However, new tribunals statistics show an increase in the number of decisions revised in favour of the claimant

11 December, 2014

More than 80 per cent of ESA claims started between January and March 2014 have either not reached or completed WCA process

New DWP statistics also show that, of those assessed, 14 per cent were placed in work related activity group and 62 per cent in support group

11 December, 2014

Universal credit still not signed off by Treasury

Meeting of the Public Accounts Committee also reveals that the Major Projects Authority still have universal credit graded as 'amber-red'

11 December, 2014

Persistent child poverty target for 2020 set at less than seven per cent

New statutory instrument

11 December, 2014

Preventing people who obtain class 3A national insurance contributions from having state pension or disablement pension reduced

New statutory instrument

10 December, 2014

DWP launches consultation on universal credit data sharing with local support providers

Views sought on draft regulations which aim to ensure that the needs of vulnerable claimants are fully identified at the start of a claim and continue to be met throughout the claim