Government advisers want it to prove customer service continuity first. The Department for Work and Pensions should not cut staff until it is sure its new IT systems have improved efficiency, a key government advisory board has warned. Two weeks ago officials at the DWP's Child Support Agency ...
DWP also refused to say if Stride would meet with the union, and how he responded to the union’s claim that DWP was a failing organisation in a state of crisis and that this crisis had been created by a government whose policies were “vindictive” towards claimants who need support. In...
If you currently receive any of these benefits, you don’t need to do anything and you’ll continue receiving them unless your circumstances change or you are contacted by the DWP about moving onto Universal Credit. However, if you make a new claim it must be for Universal Credit, you can...
In the second half, we won some important renewals in both divisions, including Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), an extension to the Standards and Testing Agency contract with the Department for Education, and contracts with the RSPCA, Thames ...
The “aggressive attitude” on benefit sanctions that was taken by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the coalition years of 2013 to 2015 is “back with a vengeance”, MPs have been warned. A debate on DWP’s policy on benefit sanctionsheard this week* that jobcentres ...
The completed form and any supporting documents should be sent to the address provided. It is advisable to keep a copy of the completed form and any supporting documents for personal records. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wi...
The unreported version, which can be culled from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data, is that only 1.4 of the 2.4 million actually receive any payment, the rest get national insurance credits only, and numbers have been falling since 2003. The basic benefit is worth barely [pounds ...
Checks were performed automatically with HMRC or DWP, and where government data was missing, applicants were given the option to submit additional proof of residence. Ineligible for settled status? Applicants who were ineligible for settled status because they had spent more than six months outside ...
(for example,Department for Work & Pensions [DWP], 2002;Social Exclusion Unit [SEU], 2004;Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2007;Black, 2008;PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2008). This has led to investment in services explicitly aiming to reverse the “mental health burden” on employers and the...
Their picture of what a family ought to have includes a space to eat together away from the television,plenty of fruit and vegetables,and bicycles so children can get exercise.The breakdown of necessities and luxuries was prepared by researchers from the Department for Work and Pensions(DWP) ...