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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 ...
The Old State Pension, consisting of the Basic State Pension (alongside the Graduated Retirement Benefit, the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme, and the State Second Pension; collectively known as Additional State Pension), is a benefit payable to men born before 6 April 1951, and to women born before 6 April 1953.
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Department for Work and Pensions v Information Commissioner was a 2013 first-tier tribunal case in the United Kingdom. It concerned a dispute over whether companies that had participated in government ' workfare ' schemes should be released under the Freedom of Information Act following a request by a man called Frank Zola.
National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is one of the qualifying pension schemes that employers can use to meet their new duties. It was set up as part of the government's workplace pension reforms. Nest is a trust-based defined contribution pension scheme, run by a trustee (Nest Corporation) on a not-for-profit basis.
Frozen state pensions is the practice of the British Government of "freezing" UK State Pensions, (that is, not uprating the amount in line with "Triple Lock" on an annual basis, as is done for residents in the UK), for pensioners who live in the majority of other countries, apart from the European Community countries and other countries with reciprocal agreements with the UK.
The Pension, Disability and Carers Service was an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which was created in April 2008. [ 1 ] The PDCS brought together two former separate executive agencies, The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service . [ 2 ]
Iain Duncan Smith served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. A member and previous leader of the Conservative Party, Duncan Smith was appointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister David Cameron following the 2010 general election and the formation of the coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.