23 December, 2022
20 December, 2022
In addition, Select Committee urges DWP to find a solution to the barrier that requiring upfront costs creates, and to provide more support and advice for those that need help with childcare
20 December, 2022
New figures highlight that most common reasons for complaints are ‘quality of service’ and ‘timescales’, and that only 45 of 560 stage 1 complaints were not upheld between April and September 2022
19 December, 2022
Housing Secretary says new funding will enable councils to deliver additional support to claimants and give them the resources and flexibility 'to determine local approaches to support other vulnerable households in their area'
19 December, 2022
Publication follows budget announcement confirming that rates will increase by 10.1 per cent from April 2023
16 December, 2022
Clear that Department’s approach to sanctions has changed 'in ways that Ministers have so far been unwilling to explain or justify', says Shadow Work and Pensions Minister
16 December, 2022
16 December, 2022
Minister provides response to written question in Parliament on implications of reforms not taking effect from date of original High Court decision in 2016
16 December, 2022
Views sought on what further steps the UK Government could take in light of 'ever-spiralling heating bills, transport costs and decline of public services' in Scotland's rural areas
15 December, 2022
Delivering the Scottish Budget 2023/2024, Deputy First Minister says that having already increased Scottish child payment, the government will invest £428 million to uprate all other benefits under its control by September’s CPI inflation level
15 December, 2022
New DWP statistics also highlight that almost two-thirds of expenditure was related to welfare reforms
15 December, 2022
In final report on administrative exercise, DWP confirms that it has made around 4,300 arrears payments after carrying out more than two million award reviews
15 December, 2022
Aim is always that special payment decisions 'should culminate in timely and appropriate redress for our customers', says Minister
14 December, 2022
Responding to a written question in Parliament, DWP Minister also advises that an average of £62 is being deducted from people's benefits every month
14 December, 2022
Highlighting the risk of creating work disincentives, Treasury Committee also suggests that the government considers introducing a taper to respond to increases in income
14 December, 2022
New report finds that, as a result of rising prices, more than 60 per cent of low-income households are going without basics, rising to 90 per cent for those on universal credit
14 December, 2022
New statutory instrument
14 December, 2022
New child poverty progress report shows that more than 30 per cent of children in Wales lived in poverty in three-year period to 2020
13 December, 2022
Responding to July 2021 report from the In-Work Progression Commission, Secretary of State says the Department's plans will 'enable people to have higher quality, higher paying jobs'
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