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I Can Make It activity and Ministerial support for the Social Value Act
20 July 2017 | News
... and I’m committed to making this the way government does business by default, staring with DWPs own contracts.” We ...
Our response to the NAO report on sanctions
29 November 2016 | News
... those out of work, to get into work, or set up their own business, with the tailored and flexible support they need ...
2nd Access to Work evidence session
02 September 2014 | News
The Work and Pensions Select Committee held the second of four Access to Work oral evidence sessions for its inquiry into employment support for disabled people
Purpose of the session
The session considered:
Benefits fraud less than one per cent
14 May 2014 | News
The latest Work and Pensions Committee report Fraud and error in the benefits system shows that official data shows that there is nearly twice as much error as fraud in the benefits system.
The official figure for fraud is 0.7% yet the general public’s misperception is that it is 34 times higher (23%).
The Committee recommends that to, avoid public confusion, the DWP should publish statistics relating to the estimated level of benefit fraud on a separate day from those related to error in the benefits system.
Dame Anne Begg MP said:
New DR UK updated benefit sanctions factsheet free to download
20 July 2020 | News
... those out of work, to get into work, or set up their own business, with the tailored and flexible support they need ...
IDS on benefit deaths, PIP, food banks and tax credits
27 October 2015 | News
... pension reforms, including auto-enrolment and small businesses, Pensions Freedoms; and the New State Pension ...
Government announces plans for a National Disability Strategy
19 December 2019 | News
... disabled people. The consultation “health is everyone’s business” will set out measures to encourage employers to ...
Work Capability Test Not Fit for Purpose
07 February 2013 | News
News release
Disability Rights UK welcomes the report published by the Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. They found that the work capability test is causing fear and distress, it is not accurate enough and it raises serious concerns about value for money.
Liz Sayce OBE, Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK, says:
“We welcome the fact that a cross party committee of MPs agrees with what disabled people have been saying so strongly.
600 disabled claimants per DEA unacceptable
27 January 2014 | News
A new Work and Pensions Committee report recommends that Jobcentre Plus (JCP) should continue to provide a public employment service for the unemployed but that it should be incentivised to get jobseekers into work.
The report, The role of Jobcentre Plus in the reformed welfare system, suggests that two key reforms are needed to achieve this:
People with common mental disorders have incomes two-thirds that of people without those conditions: new research report
07 February 2021 | News
... (MHIC) report. The MHIC comprises of leaders from business, unions, politics, academia and the third sector. ...