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Find out more about your State Pension and how you can plan ahead for retirement.
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See Potential
See Potential can help your business fill skills gaps and diversify your workforce by hiring people from disadvantaged groups.
Universal Credit: Opening up work
Universal Credit is ‘opening up work’ and allowing access to a wider range of jobs.
Spring Budget 2017
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave his Spring Budget to Parliament on 8 March 2017.
Latest
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Work Choice provider memos: 2017
- updated
- Guidance
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NINo allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK: background information
- updated
- Official Statistics
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 regulations
- 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 over 22 million claimants and customers.
DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies.
Documents
Our announcements
Our consultations
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Proposal for the future of Broxburn Jobcentre
- Closed consultation
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Proposal for the future of Brighouse Jobcentre
- Closed consultation
Our publications
Our statistics
Our ministers
Our management
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Sir Robert Devereux KCB
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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Jeremy Moore
Director General, Strategy
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Mayank Prakash
Director General, Chief Digital and Information Officer
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Andrew Rhodes
Director General, Operations
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Peter Schofield
Director General, Finance
Contact DWP
Jobcentre Plus
Contact your nearest office
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The Pension Service
Contact your pension centre
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Media enquiries
For journalists
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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
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High profile groups within DWP
Corporate information
Jobs and contracts
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