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Wednesday, 03 September 2014
Mayank Prakash has been appointed as the new Director General for Technology at the Department for Work and Pensions....
Tuesday, 02 September 2014
The next stage of the government’s pension reforms will receive their Second Reading in Parliament....
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Thousands of high street businesses could be turning away the custom of 1 in 5 people by not attracting disabled people....
Friday, 22 August 2014
The number of disabled people in apprenticeships has more than tripled in the last 10 years. ...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
New figures reveal Watford, north Dorset and the Shetland Islands are leading the way against outdated stereotypes of older workers....
Monday, 18 August 2014
Saving into a workplace pension is becoming more of a social norm, new research shows....
Friday, 15 August 2014
Today (15 August 2014) marks 600 days until the start of the new State Pension – on 6 April 2016....
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Four million people have now been automatically enrolled in workplace pensions – an increase of over 1 million this year or over 6,000 a day on averag...
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Youth unemployment has seen the largest annual fall since records began alongside the steepest annual fall in unemployment in 25 years....
Sunday, 10 August 2014
The last of a series of radical changes to the child maintenance system is implemented today (11 August 2014)....
Thursday, 07 August 2014
11.9m people in the UK are failing to save enough for retirement but many only need make modest changes to safeguard their financial future....
Thursday, 07 August 2014
Almost 10,000 people who had their benefits capped have now moved into work or stopped claiming Housing Benefit entirely....
Monday, 04 August 2014
Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud, has announced 6 appointments to the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC). ...
Friday, 25 July 2014
The government’s new Health and Work Service in England and Wales will be delivered by Health Management Limited, a MAXIMUS company, it was announced ...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Remploy Employment Services will become independent of government so it can expand its business to help even more disabled people into work....
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
The government is updating the way it talks to benefit claimants following an independent review of Jobseeker's Allowance sanctions....
Friday, 18 July 2014
The Prime Minister hails new figures on the first anniversary of Disability Confident campaign, as over 1,000 British businesses sign up to the campai...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Universal Credit will be extended again today (30 June 2014) as the service opens up to new claims from couples....
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Nearly a million more people are in work compared to a year ago, and the employment rate has never been higher, new official figures show. ...
Monday, 14 July 2014
Economist, policy expert and consumer champion Dr Ros Altmann CBE has been appointed by the government as its new Business Champion for Older Workers....
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Jobseekers to get extra help to get online and manage their finances on a monthly basis to prepare for the world of work under Universal Credit....
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Announcing local support for jobseekers to help prepare for Universal Credit....
Tuesday, 08 July 2014
Nearly 70% of the British public feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London Paralympic Games in 2012, statistics published ...
Wednesday, 02 July 2014
British pensioners have seen their income grow for the first time in real terms in 3 years – with the triple lock protection of the State Pension and ...
Tuesday, 01 July 2014
The number of people in relative poverty has fallen by 100,000 over the past year....
Sunday, 29 June 2014
A new child maintenance system will support more families to work together and maintain a subsidised service for those who really need it....
Friday, 27 June 2014
David Harker CBE has been appointed as Chair of The Pensions Advisory Service, the DWP announced today (27 June 2014). ...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Supporting families into work, improving living standards and raising educational attainment are the fundamental aims set out in the government’s chil...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Welfare reforms have boosted the number of benefit claimants training to improve their skills by almost 40%....
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Pensions Minister Steve Webb to continue with plans to overhaul the private pensions market....
UK Defence Innovation UKDI seeks innovations to detect and defeat fibre optically controlled UAS
Animal and Plant Health Agency APHA Inspector Andrew Gaunt awarded RHS Veitch Memorial Medal
Government Chemist Understanding honey fraud and the role of authenticity testing
Ofsted Ofsted to inspect early years providers more frequently