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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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    Ministers put off decision to increase pension age to 68

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023

    A decision to increase the state pension age to 68 has been put back, the government has announced.

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    DC pensions’ value for money to be made more transparent

    by Rob Moss 31 Jan 2023
    by Rob Moss 31 Jan 2023

    Government unveils reforms to improve DC pensions' value for money, aimed at closing inequality gap compared to DB schemes.

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    Disability claimants could continue to receive benefits in work

    by Rob Moss 12 Jan 2023
    by Rob Moss 12 Jan 2023

    Ministers are planning a white paper on reforming in-work disability benefits through tax breaks.

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    New business and work and pensions secretaries named

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2022

    Rishi Sunak has assembled his cabinet, with Grant Shapps as business secretary and Mel Stride appointed work and pensions secretary.

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    Hunt reverses tax cuts including repeal of IR35 reforms

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Oct 2022

    New chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the government will no longer reverse the off-payroll IR35 reforms announced in the mini Budget.

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    State pension age could rise to 69 despite static life expectancy

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Oct 2022

    A further rise in the state pension age is likely, according to a new study of future trends.

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    Chancellor plans to boost work among over 50s and benefits claimants

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Sep 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Sep 2022

    Plans to increase working hours among the over 50s and benefits claimants are to be unveiled in tomorrow's mini-Budget.

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    New work and pensions secretary announced

    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Sep 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Sep 2022

    Prime Minister Liz Truss has assembled her cabinet, naming Chloe Smith as the work and pensions secretary and Jacob Rees-Mogg as business secretary.

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    Government launches DB pension long-term funding consultation

    by Rob Moss 26 Jul 2022
    by Rob Moss 26 Jul 2022

    Ministers have launched a consultation on measures to improve the long-term funding of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and protections...

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    Employment and equalities ministers quit Boris Johnson’s cabinet

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jul 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jul 2022

    Employment minister Mims Davies and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch are among the latest to resign from Boris Johnson's cabinet over concerns about his leadership.

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    More government support to help over 50s back into work

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jul 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jul 2022

    Job seekers over the age of 50 will be given more one-to-one support to help them get into work, the Department for Work and Pensions has said.

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    Restart scheme: figures suggest 93% haven’t found work

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jun 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jun 2022

    Restart scheme figures show just 7% have found jobs since the programme began in July 2021.

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    Number of working people with disability up 1.3 million in five years

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2022

    The number of disabled people in work in 2022 is 1.3 million higher than five years ago, exceeding the target set by the government.

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    Kickstart is ‘chaotic’ and failing employers and young people, find MPs

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Feb 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Feb 2022

    Like many initiatives triggered by the Covid pandemic, Kickstart was rushed and has failed to deliver predicted benefits.

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    British Sign Language Bill passes second reading

    by Jo Faragher 31 Jan 2022
    by Jo Faragher 31 Jan 2022

    The UK Deaf community is celebrating after a Bill to give British Sign Language legal recognition passed its second reading...

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