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Thursday, 18 June 2015
Minister for Pensions Baroness Altmann's maiden speech to the House of Lords on proposed reforms to state and private pension systems....
Thursday, 18 June 2015
The biggest employment programme Britain has ever seen has helped push long-term unemployment to its lowest level in more than 5 years....
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Real wages have grown faster than at any point in the last 7 years, official figures out today show....
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Today Universal Credit is available to more people in 6 more Jobcentres across the country and will make sure work always pays....
Sunday, 07 June 2015
All Glasgow Jobcentres now offer Universal Credit, with the new benefit that makes work always pay, available to all new single claimants....
Monday, 01 June 2015
Universal Credit is now available to more people at 15 more Jobcentres across the country and will make sure work always pays....
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Universal Credit arrives in Banff, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Falkirk, Grangemouth, Stirling and Alloa. Learn about how it can benefit you....
Thursday, 14 May 2015
The benefit cap continues to provide an incentive to work, with thousands of people who had their benefits capped moving into work....
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Iain Duncan Smith was welcomed back as the Secretary of State, alongside Lord Freud who continues as Minister for Welfare Reform....
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The number of benefit sanctions has gone down by a third over the past year....
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
UK employment has reached an all-time high of 73.5% – and over the last year employment growth has outstripped every other major economy....
Monday, 11 May 2015
The national roll out of Universal Credit continues today (11 May 2015) with the benefit now available to new single claimants in Richmond, Kirkwall, ...
Thursday, 26 March 2015
The Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud, announced today (26 March 2015) that Paul Gray has been reappointed as Chair of SSAC....
Thursday, 26 March 2015
National Grid has pledged to become a partner of the government’s Disability Confident campaign. ...
Thursday, 26 March 2015
A government report published today sets out how new measures to tackle fraud and error will save the taxpayer £2.6 billion a year. ...
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Couples expecting a baby are to be given professional coaching on how becoming parents may change their relationship....
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Karen Johnston has been appointed as Deputy Pensions Ombudsman and Deputy Pensions Protection Fund Ombudsman. ...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Complaints from the public being fobbed off with health and safety excuses are at a record high. ...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Over 65,000 businesses have been set up with government backing from the New Enterprise Allowance....
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Nearly 1,000 more disabled people a year will benefit from specialist employment support thanks to a new scheme announced today (24 March 2015)....
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
New figures show the number of workless households has fallen by more than 600,000 since 2010, the lowest in a decade....
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Lieutenant General Andrew Graham appointed to the DWP Departmental Board and Chair of its Audit and Risk Assurance Committee....
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Bringing together individuals with the influence and expertise to tackle Britain’s most damaging social problems....
Thursday, 19 March 2015
More than 400,000 long-term unemployed people are now in work because of the Work Programme....
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Judges in the country’s highest court have declared that the benefit cap is lawful....
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The employment rate has now hit an all time record high in the UK, after growing faster than any major economy over the past year....
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Nearly 5.2 million workers have been enrolled into a workplace pension scheme through automatic enrolment....
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Organisations that have helped transform the lives of disabled people have been recognised at an awards ceremony to promote accessibility....
Thursday, 12 March 2015
A bold ambition to ensure more disabled people can benefit from the UK’s growing economy and jobs market is behind Access to Work changes....
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Enabling people over 50 into employment could boost the economy by up to £25 billion a year....
Intellectual Property Office New digital patents services have launched
Ministry of Defence DNA test identifies Essex soldier of the Great War
Social Security Advisory Committee Benefits system distorts choices at 16
UK Health Security Agency Antibiotics and MenB vaccination to be offered to young people in Dorset
Central Arbitration Committee How to submit applications and complaints to the CAC