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Wednesday, 13 November 2013
New figures released today show the number of households claiming Housing Benefit that have been affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy....
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
The number of people in work has risen by 378,000 over the last year to a record breaking 29.95 million....
Friday, 08 November 2013
New independent research shows there is strong public support for reducing under-occupation and overcrowding in social housing....
Friday, 08 November 2013
The Department for Work and Pensions is to start recruitment for a new Chair of The Pensions Regulator. ...
Thursday, 07 November 2013
New figures show almost 36,000 people potentially affected by the benefit cap have accepted support to get into work....
Thursday, 07 November 2013
The ‘Tell Us Once’ service for people to tell the government about births and deaths receives ringing endorsement by the people who use it....
Thursday, 07 November 2013
The government is setting out a range of proposals to reshape workplace pensions for future generations. ...
Wednesday, 06 November 2013
Latest figures show Jobseeker's Allowance claimants who failed to do enough to find work had their benefits payments suspended 580,000 times....
Monday, 04 November 2013
People on sickness benefits will be required to have regular meetings with healthcare professionals to help them with their barriers to work....
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
A look at the progress made since the publication of the social justice strategy, and the work still to be done....
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Nick Baldwin appointed as the Chair of the Office for Nuclear Regulation....
Monday, 28 October 2013
Personal Independence Payment is being rolled out to existing claimants of Disability Living Allowance....
Monday, 28 October 2013
New jobseekers in Hammersmith will be able to make a claim for Universal Credit....
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Latest figures show over 2,000 more disabled people got the support they needed to get or keep their job, compared with this time last year....
Saturday, 19 October 2013
The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell dramatically over the last month, by more than 40,000....
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Latest Office for National Statistics figures show a million more people are in work compared to early 2010....
Monday, 14 October 2013
Kevin Cunnington appointed as the new Director General for Digital Transformation....
Monday, 14 October 2013
New jobseekers will have to account more clearly for their efforts to find work to get their benefit....
Monday, 14 October 2013
David McArthur, account manager at Bournemouth Jobcentre Plus, awarded Honorary Fellowship by the Institute of Recruitment Professionals. ...
Friday, 11 October 2013
Changes to automatic enrolment rules to help employers....
Friday, 11 October 2013
Peter Cooke has been reappointed as a trustee of the Independent Living Fund....
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Independent research published on public view about the benefit cap. ...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
In the first year of a new scheme to get workers saving for retirement, over 1.6 million people have enrolled....
Wednesday, 09 October 2013
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has unveiled his new ministerial team....
Friday, 04 October 2013
The proportion of claims made online has more than doubled in a year – saving money and paving the way for Universal Credit....
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
A speech on the progress of welfare reforms by Lord Freud, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Welfare Reform....
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Some Jobseeker's Allowance claimants will have to take part in supervised jobsearch activity in a new trial to be introduced in 2014....
Thursday, 26 September 2013
The £500 a week benefit cap is in place across the country and a major welfare reform has been successfully delivered....
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Latest published figures show over 168,000 jobseekers have escaped long-term unemployment and found lasting work through the Work Programme....
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Matthew Oakley appointed to carry out an independent review of benefit sanctions for the government. ...
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