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Unnecessary reassessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) are today (9 July 2019) being scrapped for around 290,000 disabled pensioners.

• Updated: 9 July 2019

The government needs to help every worker outperform what society says they should be able to do, no matter their background, says Work and Pensions Secretary at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

• Updated: 9 May 2019

Amber Rudd talks about the future of the Labour Market at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation

• Updated: 9 May 2019

Amber Rudd will host the first ever youth employment roadshow in Hastings to help young jobseekers into the world of work.

• Updated: 8 March 2019

The Work and Pensions Secretary has announced new measures to support disabled people, including stopping unnecessary reassessments for disabled pensioners.

• Updated: 5 March 2019

The Work and Pensions Secretary's speech announcing new measures to support disabled people, including stopping unnecessary reassessments for disabled pensioners.

• Updated: 5 March 2019

Latest statistics show 140,000 Housing Benefit households and 9,900 Universal Credit households are no longer subject to the benefit cap

• Updated: 7 February 2019

Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd will visit Harlow Jobcentre Plus in Essex today to see how Universal Credit is working for people across the UK.

• Updated: 31 January 2019

A letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about the Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019.

• Updated: 15 January 2019

The government announced today changes to benefits for mixed age couples that will be introduced from 15 May 2019.

• Updated: 14 January 2019

Correspondence between SSAC and DWP about The Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018.

• Updated: 13 December 2018

Jobseekers have set up more than 26,000 new businesses under the New Enterprise Allowance scheme.

• Updated: 29 November 2018

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made a statement to the House today.

• Updated: 5 November 2018

The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC)'s independent report on Universal Credit managed migration has been published.

• Updated: 5 November 2018

New figures show that around 54,000 households are no longer subject to the benefit cap, indicating more people are entering work or taking on more hours.

• Updated: 1 November 2018

The number of children in the UK living in long-term workless households is down 580,000 since 2010, falling to its lowest level in more than a decade.

• Updated: 31 October 2018

The employment rate is at 75.3% – up from 74.6% compared to a year ago and the joint highest since records began.

• Updated: 21 March 2018

Official figures released today show that the unemployment rate remains at a near-record low of 4.4%, with the employment rate at a near-record high of 75.2%.

• Updated: 21 February 2018

Universal Credit will be paid sooner to new claimants from today (14 February 2018).

• Updated: 14 February 2018

Some 45,000 households have had someone move into work and so are no longer subject to the benefit cap, new statistics out today show.

• Updated: 1 February 2018