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Almost 100,000 workplace training places have been delivered in the past year for jobseekers, smashing the Government’s 80,000 annual target, new data has revealed.

• Updated: 28 April 2024

The Prime Minister has outlined a package of sweeping reforms to put work at the heart of welfare and deliver on his “moral mission” to give everyone who is able to work, the best possible chance of staying in, or returning …

• Updated: 19 April 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a speech on welfare.

• Updated: 19 April 2024

Plans to boost economic activity while supporting vulnerable people with the cost of living will be driven through by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, as the Government unveiled its Budget for Long Term Growth.

• Updated: 7 March 2024

A bold new government-backed review has set out a vision for workplace culture changes to support autistic people to start and stay in work.

• Updated: 28 February 2024

Around 1.6 million private renters are set to receive a substantial boost to their housing support in April, as the Government lays legislation to increase Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

• Updated: 9 January 2024

The number of 50PLUS Champions helping older workers into work has been doubled in Jobcentres up and down the country, the Minister for Employment has announced.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

New Back to Work Plan to help up to 1,100,000 people with long-term health conditions, disabilities or long-term unemployment to look for and stay in work.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

Disabled people and those with health conditions, who are currently being held back from improving their lives through work, will be better supported to realise their potential under Government plans unveiled today.

• Updated: 5 September 2023

Two thousand people in Great Britain will receive letters inviting them to apply for Pension Credit as part of an innovative new trial launched today.

• Updated: 17 July 2023

The Minister for Employment has written to SSAC responding to points raised about The Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2021.

• Updated: 27 April 2023

A new SSAC report assesses the future of working age contributory benefits for those not in paid work.

• Updated: 24 October 2022

Letters in respect of a ministerial direction concerning the treatment of Historical Institutional Abuse payments in means-tested benefits.

• Updated: 10 December 2021

GAD has completed actuarial reviews of 2 social security funds in Guernsey. The reports show key drivers of the funds' finances - benefits, migration patterns and earnings.

• Updated: 10 February 2021

The Government Actuary has published the Up-rating Report 2021 on the National Insurance Fund. It will be considered by MPs as they scrutinise draft government legislation.

• Updated: 19 January 2021

Correspondence between SSAC and DWP about the Universal Credit surplus earnings and self-employed losses for Universal Credit claimants.

• Updated: 29 May 2020

Around 900,000 people across the UK could see their Housing Benefit payments rise from April.

• Updated: 14 January 2020

Wages for UK workers have continued to grow, as new figures released today show wages have been rising faster than inflation for a year and a half, growing by 1.9% in real terms on last year.

• Updated: 10 September 2019

Every jobcentre in the UK will have a trained domestic abuse point of contact by the end of summer, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd will announce today.

• Updated: 18 July 2019

Unnecessary reassessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) are today (9 July 2019) being scrapped for around 290,000 disabled pensioners.

• Updated: 9 July 2019