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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...
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the business of the department, including the Departmental Strategy, planning and performance, reporting and governance requirements. They have direct responsibility for departmental expenditure. DWP is responsible for the administration of the State...
Send a question to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministerial correspondence team.
Information about applying for jobs with and working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
You have the right to get a copy of the information that is held about you. This is called the 'right of access'.
Contact the Pension Service about State Pension eligibility, claims, payments and complaints, and to update your details (such as your address or bank details)
How we use external suppliers for goods and services.
Details of the number of complaints received about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in each financial year.
This is a list of all the opinions the RPC issued in 2021 on Department for Work & Pensions measures
The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity.
This collection brings together all documents about the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP's) spend on non-consolidated performance related pay.
This first Modern Slavery Statement sets out steps DWP has taken to understand where slavery could occur in its supply chains and actions to mitigate and manage this, to help ensure that taxpayers’ money does not inadvertently fund this cruel...
This is a list of all the opinions the RPC issued in 2020 on Department for Work & Pensions measures.
Our research is used to understand, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate our policies and services.
DSS was replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions in 2001.
National and Official statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is the UK regulator of work-based pension schemes. It works with trustees, employers, pension specialists and business advisers, giving guidance on what is expected of them. TPR is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the...
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