Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK
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 around 20 million claimants and customers.
£15 million funding boost to Help to Claim as Government ramps …
2 days ago · 12 November 2024. £15 million funding boost to support Government’s acceleration of Move to Universal Credit programme, before it ends in March 2026. 943,343 households contacted between July ...
DWP issues update on six major changes impacting benefits and …
Oct 31, 2024 · The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has outlined six major changes that will impact millions of people claiming state pensions and benefits following the first Budget under the new Labour...
Kendall launches blueprint for fundamental reform to change the …
Jul 23, 2024 · Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will use landmark first speech to set out the Government’s plans to reverse dire labour market inheritance and drive up Britain’s employment.
Callers to Department for Work and Pensions left on hold for ... - Sky News
Jul 23, 2024 · People phoning the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) collectively spent more than 753 years waiting for calls to be answered in 2023/24, a report has found. The wait time applied to more than 40 million calls made - although more than six …
DWP to shift focus from benefits to work, Liz Kendall says - The …
Jul 23, 2024 · The government has announced plans for “fundamental reform” in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – turning it from a so-called ‘department for welfare’ into a ‘department for work’.
DWP must focus on work not welfare, says minister - BBC News
Jul 23, 2024 · The Department for Work and Pensions will shift its focus from welfare to work under a Labour government, the department's new minister has said. In a speech in Barnsley, Liz Kendall said...
DWP must focus on work not welfare, says minister - BBC
Jul 23, 2024 · The Department for Work and Pensions will shift its focus from welfare to work under a Labour government, the department's new minister has said. In a speech in Barnsley, Liz Kendall said...
Disability and illness benefit changes proposed - BBC
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the work capability assessment - the test aimed at establishing how a disability or illness...
What is the DWP Christmas bonus? Petition for raise of more than …
Tamara Davison September 11, 2024. Thousands of people across the UK have called for a rise to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) Christmas bonus. For more than half a century, pensioners ...