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Universal Credit, the government’s flagship welfare reform, will expand rapidly throughout the rest of 2014.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
About 300,000 long-term unemployed people have found lasting work using the Work Programme – an increase of 44,000 people in jobs in the last 3 months.
Around 2,000 businesses a month have been set up over the past year by people who have moved from claiming benefits to being their own boss.
The number of benefit decision appeals dropped by 79% to 32,546 between January and March 2014, compared to same time last year.
Minister for Pensions Steve Webb launches a new action plan to help older workers stay in the workplace
A record employment rise saw nearly 5,500 more people in work every working day over the last 3 months.
Civil Service team wins Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) prize for their work promoting the Disability Confident Campaign.
Support to families facing bereavement will be expanded as a new service joins Tell Us Once.
Interactive TV, smartphone apps and social media has been used to view over 100,000 pages of Universal Credit information.
Jobcentre Plus, in partnership with local authorities, to help 16 and 17 year olds to catch up, keep up and find work.
Help to Work will give Jobcentre staff a new range of options to support the hardest to help get off benefits and into work.
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support fraud and error overpayments are at their lowest recorded levels.
Major reforms to simplify the State Pension and provide greater clarity about what people will receive in retirement are a step closer.
Employment has seen the largest quarterly rise since records began and the unemployment rate has fallen again to a new 5-year low.
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg gave a statement on the latest employment statistics released today.
Tom Boardman appointed as Deputy Chair and Graham Berville as a new Trustee Member of the NEST Corporation.
New Scottish businesses offer inspiration for jobseekers says Scottish Secretary.
More and more people have been making contact with their lost pension funds using the government’s free Pension Tracing Service.
More than 100 people affected by the benefit cap have moved into work every week on average since the introduction of the policy last April.
Thousands of people in jobs where it is not traditional to save in a pension are building up retirement savings for the first time.
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