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Under plans by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), pension credit and housing benefit will soon be combined in a bid to make it easier for pensioners to claim the help that they are ...
Benefit claimants are being forced to wait over three months for reviews on decisions, DWP figures reveal, as a senior minister says there is no hard deadline on processing claims.. Departmental ...
It is part of the social security benefits system and is intended to cover living expenses while the claimant is out of work. JSA is administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in England, Wales, and Scotland, and in Northern Ireland by the Department for Communities. Claimants must be between 18 years of age and the State ...
Will benefit rates be going up soon? Following the chancellor’s Budget announcement, it was confirmed that all benefits will be uprated by 1.7 per cent, matching the September 2024 inflation figure.
DWP also administers State Pension, Pension Credit, disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment, and support for life events from Maternity Allowance to bereavement benefits. Non-departmental bodies accountable to DWP include the Health and Safety Executive, The Pensions Regulator and the Money and Pensions Service.
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.
Instead of focusing on just monitoring and managing benefit claims, there will be a renewed focus on skills and careers. This will be supported by a trial of the latest technologies to support DWP ...
The processing of benefits claims has also changed, so that they are processed at a smaller number of larger Benefit Centres rather than local benefit offices and jobcentres. During 2003, the DWP commenced the use of Post Office accounts for the payment of benefits, a process fully operational at the beginning of the financial year in 2005. [19]