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Work and Pensions Committee Tuesday 24 April 2018 Meeting starts at 9.30am AGENDA Subject: Universal Credit rollout Witnesses: Kit Malthouse, MP, Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance

Simple Payment, which allowed people without a bank account to collect benefit or pension payments, was replaced by the Payment Exception Service on 29 March 2018. Ahead of the introduction of the Payment Exception Service, people using Simple Paymen...

People who are disabled or have a physical or mental health condition can now claim up to £57,200 a year in Access to Work grants.   The grants can pay for additional support that people may need in the workplace beyond reasonable adjustme...

DWP has improved the DLA for children claim form.  The improved form: •             includes guidance to help claimants provide the right supporting information •  &...

The DWP are making Mandatory Reconsideration easier. If someone disagrees with a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) decision about benefits, tax credits or child maintenance, they can ask DWP to look at the decision again. This is called man...

Santander have published a useful leaflet called 'Scam Avoidance School'. If you are passing one of their branches you might grab a copy. Interestingly scammers target the over 60's says Santander’s research. Whether it is 'Social engineering'...

Commenting on new figures published today (Monday) by the Office for National Statistics, which show that UK firms used 1.8 million zero-hour contacts in 2017 and that 901,000 people have a zero-hour contract as their main employment (final quarter...

Scots have been sanctioned by the DWP over 400,000 times since 2010, figures compiled by the Scottish Parliament’s Information Centre (SPICe) show.   The  figure does not include sanctions that were later overturned on appeal. The pun...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently published its findings on the potential cumulative impact of implemented and proposed UK Government tax and welfare reforms on people sharing different protected characteristics.  The repo...

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., has today announced that she will facilitate access, from 1 June this year, to Community Employment (CE) and Tús schemes for long-term unemployed jobseekers who a...