Archive: Department For Work And Pensions

What about the families? Question-marks hang over universal credit pilots

Jobcentre universal credit rollout begins - at a tiny scale - from today

The first pilot schemes in the rollout of the coalition's benefit reforms are beginning today, but are facing criticism for not testing the way families will be affected.

Labour 'squandered £10bn' on tax credit blunders

Childcare boost to benefit 80k more families

Analysis: Hidden dangers of the coalition's welfare reforms

'Not rational': MPs scathing over DWP's housing benefit clampdown

Most housing benefit claimants aren't aware of the impending changes, MPs warn

The coalition's housing benefit changes are being hit by scathing criticism from MPs, in a report questioning the fundamental economic justification for the reforms.

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Grayling: Placements turn into jobs

Grayling: Placements turn into jobs

Chris Grayling, minister for employment, defends the government's embattled workfare scheme

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CIPD: Work experience needed for right attitude and work ethic

CIPD: Work experience needed for right attitude and work ethic

Katerina Rüdiger, skills policy adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, comments on the government's embattled workfare scheme:

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Poundland: We are suspending workfare participation

Poundland: We are suspending workfare participation

Jim McCarthy, chief executive officer of Poundland, comments on his firm's decision to withdraw from the government's workfare scheme:

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Coalition won't budge despite 'bedroom tax' defeat

Tenants will pay price for under-occupied council housing

Ministers have vowed to press ahead with their 'bedroom tax' on under-occupied council housing, after yet another government defeat in the Lords.

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Department for Work and Pensions: Tax credits caused poverty trap

Department for work and pensions: tax credits caused poverty trap

A government spokesperson responds to the IFS report:

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