Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) increases

Between 1978 and 1997, contracted-out defined benefit pension schemes were required to provide a Guaranteed [...]

DWP benefits statistics

National and Official statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and [...]

Disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system: Committee publishes Government-commissioned research

The Work and Pensions Committee has used parliamentary powers to publish a Government-commissioned report into [...]

Disability benefits assessments and the Government’s health and disability green paper

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses third-party contractors to provide health and disability [...]

Claimant experience of telephone-based health assessments for PIP, ESA and UC

DWP commissioned external researchers NatCen to conduct surveys with PIP, UC and ESA claimants to [...]

Benefit sanctions statistics

Statistics on the number of sanctions imposed on people who receive JSA, ESA (WRAG), IS [...]

Supporting Terminally ill Claimants

Today the Department for Work and Pensions is introducing an amendment to the Universal Credit [...]

Universal Credit Local Housing Allowance rates: 2022 to 2023

Monthly Universal Credit Local Housing Allowance rates for England, Scotland and Wales from 2022 to [...]

Severely disabled benefits claimants win legal challenge over loss of income caused by move on to Universal Credit

Two severely disabled men known as TP and AR have won yet another legal challenge [...]

Funding boost to Citizens Advice to deliver ‘Help to Claim’ Universal Credit support

Free confidential and impartial support to help people make a Universal Credit claim will continue [...]