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Tuesday, 24 June 2014
More than £20 million specifically earmarked to help people adapt to welfare reforms was not spent by local authorities last year....
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Universal Credit, the government’s flagship welfare reform, will expand rapidly throughout the rest of 2014. ...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
About 300,000 long-term unemployed people have found lasting work using the Work Programme – an increase of 44,000 people in jobs in the last 3 months...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Around 2,000 businesses a month have been set up over the past year by people who have moved from claiming benefits to being their own boss....
Friday, 13 June 2014
The number of benefit decision appeals dropped by 79% to 32,546 between January and March 2014, compared to same time last year. ...
Friday, 13 June 2014
Minister for Pensions Steve Webb launches a new action plan to help older workers stay in the workplace...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
A record employment rise saw nearly 5,500 more people in work every working day over the last 3 months....
Friday, 30 May 2014
Support to families facing bereavement will be expanded as a new service joins Tell Us Once....
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Interactive TV, smartphone apps and social media has been used to view over 100,000 pages of Universal Credit information....
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Jobcentre Plus, in partnership with local authorities, to help 16 and 17 year olds to catch up, keep up and find work....
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support fraud and error overpayments are at their lowest recorded levels. ...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Major reforms to simplify the State Pension and provide greater clarity about what people will receive in retirement are a step closer....
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Employment has seen the largest quarterly rise since records began and the unemployment rate has fallen again to a new 5-year low....
Monday, 12 May 2014
Tom Boardman appointed as Deputy Chair and Graham Berville as a new Trustee Member of the NEST Corporation. ...
Thursday, 08 May 2014
More and more people have been making contact with their lost pension funds using the government’s free Pension Tracing Service. ...
Thursday, 08 May 2014
More than 100 people affected by the benefit cap have moved into work every week on average since the introduction of the policy last April....
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Thousands of people in jobs where it is not traditional to save in a pension are building up retirement savings for the first time....
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The expansion of the full Universal Credit benefit to the rest of the north west of England will start in June....
Friday, 25 April 2014
635,000 claimants have signed new agreements setting out what they will do to find work in return for their benefits....
Thursday, 24 April 2014
What Scottish independence would mean for social security, pensions and helping people into work....
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
The number of disabled people taking advantage of support to get or keep a job is up by over 10% on last year....
Friday, 18 April 2014
Schools and councils across the country need to educate their staff to prevent the misuse of health and safety laws....
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Unemployment has dropped below 7% for the first time since the recession and employment has seen the biggest annual jump in a generation....
Monday, 14 April 2014
Nearly half (45%) of those affected by the benefit cap say that they plan to look for work as a result....
Monday, 14 April 2014
Ministers show the red card to unfair access at every level of the game....
Friday, 11 April 2014
Around 9 million pension savers will save for the first time or save more, due to reforms of workplace pensions....
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Creating conditions for businesses to grow, resulting in jobs, and welfare reform to get people into work....
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
The government has announced new rules to deter claimants from committing benefit fraud, and ensure stolen money is returned....
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
New jobseekers in Shotton can claim Universal Credit from 7 April 2014 as the new benefit rolls out. ...
Thursday, 03 April 2014
The Minister for Pensions, Steve Webb, announced the appointment of Trustee Members to the National Employment Savings Trust....
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