We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Freezing temperatures around the country are due to trigger further Cold Weather Payments this week.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Parliament is to consider plans to more than double the maximum administrative penalty for benefit fraud from £2,000 to £5,000.
Employment Minister Esther McVey urges people not to hide their accents when looking for work.
Universal Credit will be available to families in more areas across the country, from today.
The number of absent parents who are now paying towards the cost of their children through the Child Support Agency has hit an all-time high.
Lord Freud's, Minister for Welfare Reform, speech to the Local Government Association (LGA) about Universal Credit and Universal Support.
A new milestone has been reached with the unemployment rate falling below 6% for the first time in 6 years.
Over a million jobseekers have signed up to a Claimant Commitment meaning they need to do more to find work or face losing their benefits.
Plans announced to do more to get some of England’s hardest to help families back to work.
New government research shows how the way we view retirement is changing, as well as the challenges that older workers can face.
New figures show the average waiting time for disputes against benefit decisions have dropped substantially.
Work of the Department for Communities and Local Government during Christmas Recess.
The government is rolling out an ‘older workers’ champion scheme across every part of the UK to tackle age discrimination, from April 2015.
The government's Troubled Families programme has now helped turn around the lives of over 85,000 of the hardest to help households.
Over 450 new businesses every week have been set up over the last year thanks to a government scheme.
Stephen Crabb: "The Work Programme is working for Wales."
Full-time jobs accounted for 95% of the rise in employment over the past year, with private sector employment rising by 637,000.
The Work Programme has contributed to bringing the number of long-term unemployed people down to the lowest it has been for 5 years.
More than 6 out of 10 separated parents using the new Child Maintenance Service are now choosing to make their own financial arrangements.
The Armed Forces Covenant annual report 2014 has been presented to Parliament, detailing the progress and successes of the past year.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).