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Nearly half a million young people are set to benefit as £1 billion becomes available to get them into new jobs or training. Read more...
From 30 April 2012, people will only be able to claim contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance for a maximum of a year. Read more...
Lone parents will start getting the help they need to look for work earlier rather than stay on benefits, Work and Pensions Minister Maria Miller said today (23 March). Read more...
More than one third of people going through incapacity benefits reassessment have been found to be fit for work, according to the first set of official statistics. Read more...
There are further signs that the labour market is stabilising despite the tough economic climate, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics on 14 March 2012. Read more...
Tackling disadvantage and changing lives is about more than just Welfare Reform, Iain Duncan Smith said at the launch of his Social Justice strategy on 13 March 2012. Read more...
9 March 2012 – This week we have been made aware of an allegation of attempted fraud in relation to a Mandatory Work Activity contract with A4e. We have begun a formal, immediate investigation of this allegation. Read more...
Universal Credit will radically simplify the system to make work pay and combat worklessness and poverty. Our briefing documents help to explain key policy elements.
From 2013 the Government is proposing to introduce a new benefit, Personal Independence Payment, for eligible working age people aged 16 to 64 to replace Disability Living Allowance.
We want to get Britain working. We have set out a number of major welfare to work reforms which aim to fight poverty, support the most vulnerable and help people break the cycle of benefit dependency.
