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Thursday, 02 July 2015
A new government campaign will help make smaller companies aware of their duties to automatically enrol workers into a pension scheme....
Wednesday, 01 July 2015
Government to introduce a new and strengthened approach to tracking the life chances of Britain’s most disadvantaged children....
Monday, 29 June 2015
Swansea named the UK’s first Disability Confident city. ...
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Today, 17 more Jobcentres start offering Universal Credit – the new benefit that makes work always pay....
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Latest statistic show the percentage of individuals and children in relative low income is at its lowest level since the 1980s. ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Nearly 70,000 new businesses set up across the UK by go-getting benefit claimants....
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Today, 10 more Jobcentres start offering Universal Credit in Scotland, Wales, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and the Black Country....
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....
Big win for Scotch whisky as US tariffs are lifted
Central Arbitration Committee How to submit applications and complaints to the CAC
Government Actuary's Department Cross-government roundtable explores climate scenarios
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