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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today published the latest findings from the Direct Payment Demonstration Projects.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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.
Businesses are being challenged to get involved to help tackle youth unemployment.
Disabled entrepreneurs and small businesses will benefit from more support to pay for specialised equipment and other costs.
Successful providers chosen to design and deliver a secure online identity registration service.
A new programme for young people who have never had a job or little recent work experience to help them escape a life on benefit.
New figures reveal that voluntary and community sector organisations constitute the largest number of Work Programme providers.
David Cameron meets Microsoft CEO to discuss programme offering job skills to young people in the UK.
More than a third of people going through incapacity benefit reassessment have been found to be capable of some form of work.
Speech by Mark Francois, Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans.
Speech by Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform.
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