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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It 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 around 20 million ...
Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is an unemployment benefit paid by the Government of the United Kingdom to people who are unemployed and actively seeking work. It is part of the social security benefits system and is intended to cover living expenses while the claimant is out of work.
Department for Transport: The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP Secretar y of State for Transport: Dame Bernadette Kelly DCB Permanent Secretary [14] [15] Department for Work and Pensions: The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Sir Peter Schofield KCB Permanent Secretary [16] [17] Department of Health and Social Care: The ...
The Benefits Agency (BA) was an executive agency of the British Department of Social Security (subsequently the Department for Work and Pensions), set up in 1991 to "create and deliver an active modern social security service, which encourages and enables independence and aims to pay the right money at the right time".
In 1988 the department was split again into a separate Department of Health and the Department of Social Security. [ 5 ] In 2001 the Department for Work and Pensions was formed from the Department of Social Security, absorbing the employment functions which had previously been the responsibility of the Department for Education and Employment ...
In 1966, the Supplementary Benefits Commission (part of the National Assistance Board) was merged with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to form the new Ministry of Social Security, as part of the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966. [1]
In February 2005, the Welfare Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans to replace Incapacity Benefit with two new benefits: "Disability and Sickness Allowance", for people deemed too ill to work; and "Rehabilitation Support Allowance", paid at the same rate as Jobseekers Allowance to less disabled people, who would be supported by the DWP back ...
After the Fowler report, the Department of Health and Social Security separated during 1988 to form two departments, one of which was the DSS. [1] During 2001, the department was largely replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions, [2] [3] with the other responsibilities of the department assumed by the Treasury and the Ministry for ...