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Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants and customers. Some of their responsibilities include understanding and dealing with the causes of poverty rather than its symptoms, encouraging people to work and making work pay and providing value for money and reducing levels of fraud and error.


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    Jobcentres battle with shortage of work coaches

    by Rob Moss 31 Mar 2025
    by Rob Moss 31 Mar 2025

    DWP reduces level of support it offers to claimants of universal credit because of a shortage of work coaches at its Jobcentres.

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    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Spring Statement: no relief on employers’ tax hikes

    by Jo Faragher 26 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 26 Mar 2025

    There were no further surprises for employers in today’s Spring Statement as they prepare for next week’s minimum wage and national insurance increases.

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    Benefit claimants unable to work double in number

    by Jo Faragher 19 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 19 Feb 2025

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has claimed that ‘too many people are shut out of work’ as the government pushes ahead with plans for welfare reform.

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    Get Britain Working: DWP unveils employment support reforms

    by Rob Moss 26 Nov 2024
    by Rob Moss 26 Nov 2024

    Government unveils biggest reforms to employment support for a generation with the publication of its Get Britain Working white paper.

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    Lifetime provider model for pensions scrapped

    by Jo Faragher 28 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 28 Oct 2024

    Plans to introduce a ‘pot for life’ for employee pensions will no longer go ahead, according to the Department for...

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    Older workers with health conditions face ’employment gap’

    by Jo Faragher 14 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 14 Oct 2024

    Older workers with long-term health conditions are more likely to be out of work than their younger peers, according to...

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    DWP fleshes out welfare reform plans

    by Jo Faragher 24 Jul 2024
    by Jo Faragher 24 Jul 2024

    The DWP has set out its blueprint for getting people back into work, after a report by a Labour adviser called for the long-term sick to be forced to seek work.

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    Government launches Back to Work plan to tackle economic inactivity

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2024

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has set out what the new Labour government's Back to Work plan will entail.

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    Labour ministers begin work on employment issues

    by Jo Faragher 8 Jul 2024
    by Jo Faragher 8 Jul 2024

    The Labour government has begun its first week in power with announcements and meetings related to its election pledges on employment.

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    Deaf man awarded £50k after Jobcentre failures

    by Rob Moss 28 May 2024
    by Rob Moss 28 May 2024

    Jobcentre which failed to make reasonable adjustments for deafness told to pay £50,000 and train staff on disability discrimination.

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    Skills ‘bootcamps’ to tackle unemployment

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024

    Unemployed people in the UK will be sent to skills 'bootcamps' that will train them to fill roles where there is a shortage of workers.

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    Job support programme for disabled people quietly scrapped

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Apr 2024

    The government has quietly scrapped a scheme designed to help disabled people and vulnerable individuals find jobs

    • Reasonable adjustments
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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Government launches new disability guide with CIPD

    by Jo Faragher 10 Apr 2024
    by Jo Faragher 10 Apr 2024

    The Department for Work and Pensions has published a new disability confident guide to help employers better support disabled people.

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    Mental health awareness has ‘gone too far’, says minister

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Mar 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Mar 2024

    Today's approach to mental health has ’gone too far’ and more people with ’mild’ health conditions should get jobs, Mel Stride has said.

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    • Pensions

    Updated occupational pension regulations published

    by Zoe Wickens 30 Jan 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 30 Jan 2024

    DWP publishes final Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2024 and consultation response.

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