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Millions of households on low incomes will receive fresh cost-of-living support from this spring, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which has announced further details on ...
Gordon Lyons said £17m had been found in Stormont's latest monitoring round allowing help to households affected by the cut. ... Lyons said: "This is a one-off payment because DWP (Department for ...
A Tower Hamlets Council spokesperson said it was funding its £1m initiative by two thirds from council own funds, with the remaining money coming from the DWP's household support fund (HSF).
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 benefit cap is a UK welfare policy that limits the amount in state benefits that an individual household can claim per year. It was introduced by the Cameron–Clegg coalition government in 2013 [1] as part of the coalition government's wide-reaching welfare reform agenda which included the introduction of Universal Credit and reforms of housing benefit and disability benefits.
However their sample sizes proved insufficient for the needs of DWP. The FRS was therefore launched in 1992 to supply DWP with the information it required for policy analysis. It has been conducted annually since then. Beginning with a sample size of about 26,000 households, the number was reduced in 1997 to 24,000 households.
The "limited capability for work-related activity" assessment, which tells the DWP whether somebody who has passed the first stage of the test is able to take part in "work-related activity". It also influences the rate of ESA paid to the claimant. A DWP official makes the final decision on entitlement, based on all the available evidence.
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