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Friday, 28 September 2018
Minister of State for Employment Alok Sharma's speech on building on employment success to create a more inclusive workplace....
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
As membership of workplace pension schemes hits a record high, Secretary of State Esther McVey says there’s a pensions revolution taking hold....
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The UK’s unemployment rate of 4.0% has not been lower since the 1970s and the employment rate remains at a near record high 75.5%. ...
Monday, 03 September 2018
Parents and carers should make sure they are getting National Insurance credits which may improve their State Pension income. ...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
More children than ever before are now living with a working adult as the number of UK households without a regular income from work falls to 1.27 mil...
Friday, 24 August 2018
Some of the country’s most accessible tourist and visitor attractions to disabled people have been highlighted today....
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
The unemployment rate has fallen further this month, to 4%, with a higher proportion of black and minority ethnic (BME) people in work than ever befor...
Monday, 13 August 2018
Mike Dailly and Ann Harris have been appointed as non-executive directors to the Board of the Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB). ...
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Increased funding to support businesses that provide extra employment support for disabled people with the greatest barriers to work. ...
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey's speech on personalisation and digitalisation of benefits and support at Reform....
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Official figures, released by the Office for National Statistics today, report that the overall employment rate is at 75.7%, a new record high....
Monday, 16 July 2018
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has announced the appointment of Sir Paul Kenny as a member of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Boar...
Monday, 16 July 2018
The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed John Govett as the first Chief Executive Officer of the new Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB)....
Sunday, 15 July 2018
The fund is the latest in a range of government measures that aims to see 1 million more disabled people in work by 2027....
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Karen Johnston has been reappointed as Deputy Pensions Ombudsman for a further 2 years....
Monday, 18 June 2018
People with the most severe, life-long conditions will no longer have to attend regular reviews for Personal Independence Payment (PIP)....
Monday, 18 June 2018
For the first time members will be given powers to hold their pension schemes to account over how social and environmental factors impact their invest...
Friday, 15 June 2018
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Rt Hon Esther McVey, has announced that Professor Sir Ian Diamond has been appointed the next Chair ...
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Britain has a joint record high employment rate of 75.6% with 32.39 million people now in work according to the latest official statistics....
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Sir Hector Sants has been appointed as chair of the Single Financial Guidance Body....
Monday, 21 May 2018
How the government assesses the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits is to be overhauled to provide accuracy to the statistics. ...
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
The unemployment rate in Britain remains at a 40-year low, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics....
Thursday, 03 May 2018
New figures released today show that 48,000 households have moved into work after being subject to the benefit cap....
Friday, 27 April 2018
Support for children who may otherwise be in local authority care is to be extended in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit. ...
Friday, 27 April 2018
Minister for Disabled People announces new Tech Fund as part of Access to Work, offering employers significant savings on the cost of assistive techno...
Thursday, 26 April 2018
DWP has published 5 short videos to help give people an overview of the process of claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ...
Friday, 20 April 2018
One of the UK’s largest recruitment websites Universal Jobmatch is to be re-named ‘Find a Job’. ...
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Official figures out today show that the employment rate is at 75.4% – up 0.8 percentage points from 74.6% a year ago and the highest since records be...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
People in receipt of Housing Benefit will receive an extra 2 weeks' support with their rent when they move onto Universal Credit from today (11 April ...
Monday, 09 April 2018
A number of welfare reforms have come into effect from April 2018....
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