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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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    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...

    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Ministers look to propel people on Universal Credit into jobs faster

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jan 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jan 2022

    Critics say Way to Work scheme is poorly targeted at the labour market's main problem – there are not enough people looking for work.

    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News
    • Trade unions

    Union urges government to reverse fit note relaxation

    by Rob Moss 12 Jan 2022
    by Rob Moss 12 Jan 2022

    Unite is calling on the government to cancel the relaxation to the fit note system, because it is leading to attacks on employees’ conditions.

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Age
    • Early careers

    Pensions: Making more staff eligible for auto-enrolment will help ‘levelling up’

    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2022
    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2022

    MP says the age and earnings thresholds that have existed since auto-enrolment began should be scrapped.

    • Coronavirus
    • Occupational Health
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Fit note requirement temporarily extended to 28 days

    by Rob Moss 20 Dec 2021
    by Rob Moss 20 Dec 2021

    The government has extended the time period that employees can self-certify sick from seven days to 28 days, as it...

    • Early careers
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    £2bn Kickstart scheme’s jobs may have been created anyway

    by Rob Moss 26 Nov 2021
    by Rob Moss 26 Nov 2021

    Rishi Sunak’s Kickstart programme to get 16- to 24-year-olds into high-quality jobs may be failing, and the jobs it creates...

    • IR35
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Government department pays £87.9m to HMRC for IR35 failings

    by Personnel Today 26 Jul 2021
    by Personnel Today 26 Jul 2021

    Department for Work and Pensions used HMRC's own online checker tool to gauge contractors' status, but still came up with the wrong answers.

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    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Government partners with Google to raise jobseekers’ digital skills

    by Personnel Today 26 May 2021
    by Personnel Today 26 May 2021

    Department for Work and Pensions works with Google to provide 9,000 UK jobseekers with technology and IT scholarships.

    • Benefits
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    What you need to know about the Pension Schemes Act 2021

    by Simon Kew 23 Apr 2021
    by Simon Kew 23 Apr 2021

    The Pension Schemes Act gives new powers to prosecute those who mismanage schemes. Deloitte's Simon Kew examines the ramifications.

    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    DWP ‘on track’ to hit work coaches recruitment target

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Feb 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Feb 2021

    The Department for Work and Pensions is close to onboarding 13,500 additional work coaches by March 2021.

    • Benefits
    • Financial services
    • Legal sector

    Pension Schemes Act hailed as ‘landmark’

    by Adam McCulloch 12 Feb 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 12 Feb 2021

    The new pensions act introduces specific criminal offences designed to prevent employers raiding pension pots and running pensions into the ground.

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Job-finding support launched as furlough extension calls grow

    by Jo Faragher 3 Feb 2021
    by Jo Faragher 3 Feb 2021

    The government has launched a new Job Finding Support Service amid growing pressure from business and unions to further extend...

    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Case law
    • Coronavirus

    High Court: Government failed gig workers’ health and safety

    by Rob Moss 30 Nov 2020
    by Rob Moss 30 Nov 2020

    The government has failed to implement important EU health and safety protections for workers into UK law, a judicial review...

    • Coronavirus
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Chancellor launches Restart scheme to help jobless

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Nov 2020

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged billions of funding in today’s Spending Review to help the hundreds of thousands of people...

    • Benefits
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Trustees could be forced to top up historical final salary pension pay-outs

    by Jo Faragher 23 Nov 2020
    by Jo Faragher 23 Nov 2020

    The High Court has ruled that the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes will have to revisit any pension transfers made over the past 30 years.

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