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.
Auto-enrolment of job holders into personal account pensions looms larger by the day. What should employers do to get ready? Terry Saeedi assesses that and other issues including recent revisions by the Department for Work and Pensions.