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Unemployment rate lowest in over 40 years
The unemployment rate in Britain remains at a 40-year low, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Department
for Work &
Pensions
Carillion: information for employees, sub-contractors, creditors and suppliers
Update: 23 February 2018 - Information for employees, sub-contractors, creditors and suppliers of Carillion in liquidation
Appointment of Peter Schofield as Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions
Peter Schofield has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary on Sir Robert Devereux’s retirement later this month.
Your State Pension
Find out more about your State Pension and how you can plan ahead for retirement.
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.
Universal Credit: Opening up work
Universal Credit is ‘opening up work’ and allowing access to a wider range of jobs.
Latest
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Advice for decision making: staff guide
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- Guidance
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Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2018
- updated
- Guidance
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Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2017
- updated
- Guidance
What we do
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 18 million claimants and customers.
DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 14 agencies and public bodies.
Documents
Our announcements
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Update on the future of DWP jobcentres
- News story
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Unemployment rate lowest in over 40 years
- Press release
Our consultations
Our publications
Our statistics
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Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2018
- Official Statistics
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Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2017 to 2018 preliminary estimates
- National Statistics
Our ministers
Our management
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Peter Schofield
Permanent Secretary
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Debbie Alder
Director General, Human Resources
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Neil Couling CBE
Director General, Universal Credit Programme
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Mayank Prakash
Director General, Chief Digital and Information Officer
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Susan Park
Director General, Operations
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John Paul Marks
Director General, Universal Credit Operations
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Jonathan Mills
Director General, Strategy, Policy and Analysis
Contact DWP
Jobcentre Plus
Contact your nearest office
Contact form https://www.gov.uk/con...
The Pension Service
Contact your pension centre
Contact form https://www.gov.uk/con...
Media enquiries
For journalists
Contact form https://www.gov.uk/gov...
Official address
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Email ministers@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Address legal documents to DWP Litigation Division.
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
- Make a new request by contacting us at:
High profile groups within DWP
Corporate information
Jobs and contracts
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