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Employment Minister welcomes new record employment rate
New employment figures confirmed 2018 had the UK’s strongest jobs market on record with latest figures showing more people in work than ever before.
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Amber Rudd sets out fresh approach to Universal Credit
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd sets out an ambitious new future for Universal Credit.
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Your State Pension
Find out more about your State Pension and how you can plan ahead for retirement.
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New timetable for State Pension changes to maintain fair and sustainable pension
The government’s review proposes a new timetable for the rise to 68, in line with continuing increases in life expectancy.
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Universal Credit: Opening up work
Universal Credit is ‘opening up work’ and allowing access to a wider range of jobs.
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Amber Rudd: West Midlands a standard bearer for helping people into work
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd is taking her Universal Credit fact finding tour to the West Midlands.
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers.
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