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Hundreds of thousands of sick or disabled people will be offered voluntary help towards employment as part of a package of measures coming into force today (6 April) that will encourage work and save taxpayers around £1 billion.
Additional protections for millions of vulnerable people on benefits are set to be written into law, under new measures being introduced to Parliament today [18 June 2025].
Welfare reforms designed to rebalance the benefits system and support more people into work move forward today, as Universal Credit legislation is laid in Parliament (Monday 9 February).
The backlog of people waiting to have their work capability assessed is to be significantly reduced through a package of measures that will reduce UK welfare spending by £1.9 billion by the end of 2030/31.
New details on the Government’s welfare reforms will be published today (Monday 30 June 2025) ahead of Second Reading of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on Tuesday.
Ministerial determinations relating to Universal Credit.
Details of DWP statistics that relate to the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Collated costings of welfare reform measures published by HM Treasury since the June 2010 Budget and including the 2014 Budget.
The cumulative impact of welfare reform: a commentary - summary and report (April 2014).
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