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A speech by Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
British businesses will be helped to tackle long-term sickness absence in the workplace.
Budding disabled entrepreneurs will get extra support to start up their own business in 2013.
Businesses are being targeted in a new Government campaign urging them to kick off the new year by taking on a young person.
The Coalition Government’s plans to simplify the state pension system with the creation of the “Single Tier” pension, have been published.
The Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud, announced Matthew Oakley as a new appointment to the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC).
Benefit Cap roll out will start in April in Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey and rolled out across the country throughout the summer.
Ministers laid the Welfare Benefits Up-Rating Bill before Parliament today.
Disabled people receiving care and support to lead independent lives will from 2015 do so under one local streamlined system.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today published the latest findings from the Direct Payment Demonstration Projects.
The head of the Troubled Families programme has endorsed family intervention as the most effective way to turn problem families around and help them get on in life.
Speech by Esther McVey MP.
Today Ministers confirmed the final elements of Universal Credit, making clear that 3 million families will be better off.
Correspondence relating to the consultation on the draft Universal Credit and related regulations (2012).
People on sickness benefits now able to take part in voluntary work experience to help them move towards a job.
Benefit fraud fell last year - but more action is needed to stop the £1.2bn cost to the taxpayer each year.
For the first time, the 300,000 families undergoing separation every year in Britain will be able to get free online tailored advice.
Tens of thousands of long-term unemployed are getting off benefits and into jobs through the Government’s Work Programme.
Speech by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Recommendations on further improvements to the Work Capability Assessment were welcomed by the Minister for Employment, Mark Hoban.
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