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Thursday, 29 March 2018
Housing costs will be available to 18 to 21-year-olds under Universal Credit to make sure young people from all backgrounds can get a job and progress...
Thursday, 22 March 2018
The number of people living in absolute poverty has fallen by 1 million since 2010, according to statistics released today....
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The employment rate is at 75.3% – up from 74.6% compared to a year ago and the joint highest since records began. ...
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Hundreds of disabled employees are to benefit from a £15,000 rise on Access to Work grants....
Wednesday, 07 March 2018
Number of workless households falls by 881,000 since 2010 and 53,000 on the year....
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Official figures released today show that the unemployment rate remains at a near-record low of 4.4%, with the employment rate at a near-record high...
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Universal Credit will be paid sooner to new claimants from today (14 February 2018). ...
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
One million UK employers have enrolled staff into a workplace pension, helping more than 9 million employees save towards a more financially secure re...
Thursday, 01 February 2018
Britain’s high streets are being encouraged to make sure they’re not missing out on the skills and talents disabled people can bring to the workplace....
Thursday, 01 February 2018
Some 45,000 households have had someone move into work and so are no longer subject to the benefit cap, new statistics out today show....
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Official figures released today (24 January 2018) show that the employment rate is at a joint record high of 75.3%, with a record 32.2 million people ...
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Changes to funeral payments will make it easier for people on some income-related benefits to get help towards the cost of a funeral for loved ones....
Friday, 12 January 2018
Peter Schofield has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary on Sir Robert Devereux’s retirement later this month....
Tuesday, 09 January 2018
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that Mark Boyle has been re-appointed for a second term as Non-Executive Chair of The Pensions Regu...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
All customer phone lines to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have become Freephone numbers....
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Recipients of Universal Credit full service who are self-employed can now receive business mentoring if their earnings are low. ...
Monday, 18 December 2017
The review of automatic enrolment includes major recommendations that will set millions of people on the path to a more financially secure retirement....
Monday, 18 December 2017
The government has accepted the recommendations of Paul Gray's second independent review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)....
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Tough new powers to help tackle child maintenance arrears are being proposed in a consultation that launched today (14 December 2017)....
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Unemployment is at just 4.3%, the lowest level since 1975 – and official figures have shown a fall in the unemployment rate every month in 2017....
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
The Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion's speech about the Pensions Dashboard....
Friday, 08 December 2017
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Gauke's speech on the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge report at the London School of Economics....
Wednesday, 06 December 2017
A government and FCA crackdown on excessive costs has lowered charges on £24 billion worth of assets for members of older workplace pension schemes....
Thursday, 30 November 2017
The government’s new Work and Health Programme to help disabled people into employment started this week in north west England and Wales....
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Master trust pension schemes will need to meet 5 key tests in order to continue operating, under new regulations confirmed by the government today....
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Ambitious plans aimed to get one million more disabled people in work over the next 10 years have been set out today (30 November) by ministers....
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The number of households where no one is working has fallen by 49,000 in just a year according to official figures released today....
Thursday, 23 November 2017
More details of the £1.5 billion package of support for Universal Credit were set out today by David Gauke, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensio...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Official figures show that unemployment has remained at 4.3%, the lowest rate since 1975....
Friday, 03 November 2017
Improvements to make it easier to claim a Funeral Payment will be brought in next year, the government has announced. ...
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Trade Remedies Authority Anti-dumping measure maintained on bikes from China
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Bluetongue: latest situation
Commonwealth Games return to Glasgow with UK Government backing
Department for Culture, Media and Sport Five Board Members appointed to the UK Sport Board