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Thursday, 10 July 2014
Jobseekers to get extra help to get online and manage their finances on a monthly basis to prepare for the world of work under Universal Credit....
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Announcing local support for jobseekers to help prepare for Universal Credit....
Tuesday, 08 July 2014
Nearly 70% of the British public feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London Paralympic Games in 2012, statistics published ...
Wednesday, 02 July 2014
British pensioners have seen their income grow for the first time in real terms in 3 years – with the triple lock protection of the State Pension and ...
Tuesday, 01 July 2014
The number of people in relative poverty has fallen by 100,000 over the past year....
Sunday, 29 June 2014
A new child maintenance system will support more families to work together and maintain a subsidised service for those who really need it....
Friday, 27 June 2014
David Harker CBE has been appointed as Chair of The Pensions Advisory Service, the DWP announced today (27 June 2014). ...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Supporting families into work, improving living standards and raising educational attainment are the fundamental aims set out in the government’s chil...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Welfare reforms have boosted the number of benefit claimants training to improve their skills by almost 40%....
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Pensions Minister Steve Webb to continue with plans to overhaul the private pensions market....
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
More than £20 million specifically earmarked to help people adapt to welfare reforms was not spent by local authorities last year....
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Universal Credit, the government’s flagship welfare reform, will expand rapidly throughout the rest of 2014. ...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
About 300,000 long-term unemployed people have found lasting work using the Work Programme – an increase of 44,000 people in jobs in the last 3 months...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Around 2,000 businesses a month have been set up over the past year by people who have moved from claiming benefits to being their own boss....
Friday, 13 June 2014
The number of benefit decision appeals dropped by 79% to 32,546 between January and March 2014, compared to same time last year. ...
Friday, 13 June 2014
Minister for Pensions Steve Webb launches a new action plan to help older workers stay in the workplace...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
A record employment rise saw nearly 5,500 more people in work every working day over the last 3 months....
Friday, 30 May 2014
Support to families facing bereavement will be expanded as a new service joins Tell Us Once....
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Interactive TV, smartphone apps and social media has been used to view over 100,000 pages of Universal Credit information....
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Jobcentre Plus, in partnership with local authorities, to help 16 and 17 year olds to catch up, keep up and find work....
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support fraud and error overpayments are at their lowest recorded levels. ...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Major reforms to simplify the State Pension and provide greater clarity about what people will receive in retirement are a step closer....
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Employment has seen the largest quarterly rise since records began and the unemployment rate has fallen again to a new 5-year low....
Monday, 12 May 2014
Tom Boardman appointed as Deputy Chair and Graham Berville as a new Trustee Member of the NEST Corporation. ...
Thursday, 08 May 2014
More and more people have been making contact with their lost pension funds using the government’s free Pension Tracing Service. ...
Thursday, 08 May 2014
More than 100 people affected by the benefit cap have moved into work every week on average since the introduction of the policy last April....
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Thousands of people in jobs where it is not traditional to save in a pension are building up retirement savings for the first time....
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The expansion of the full Universal Credit benefit to the rest of the north west of England will start in June....
Friday, 25 April 2014
635,000 claimants have signed new agreements setting out what they will do to find work in return for their benefits....
Thursday, 24 April 2014
What Scottish independence would mean for social security, pensions and helping people into work....
Home Office New UK-France agreement to reduce illegal crossings
Environment Agency Waste carrier fined after depositing tonnes at illegal site
Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain Statutory Document Summaries
Central Arbitration Committee How to submit applications and complaints to the CAC
Trade Remedies Authority TRA proposes new measure on South Korean hot rolled steel plate
Environment Agency Waste site clearance underway after court action