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Jobcentre Plus (Welsh: Canolfan byd Gwaith; Scottish Gaelic: Ionad Obrach is Eile) is a brand used by the Department for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] From 2002 to 2011, Jobcentre Plus was an executive agency which reported directly to the Minister of State for Employment.
In 2012, the department fully subsumed pensions, disability and life events under the DWP name; Jobcentre Plus and Child Maintenance Service remain as distinct identities publicly. Until 2021, the DWP was still using ICL VME based computer systems originating from its 1988 Pension Service Computer System to support state pension payments.
In 1995, legislation was passed through the House of Commons entitled the Jobseekers Act 1995. [10] [11] The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 [12] were produced within a period of six months from the act coming into force, with the change of Income Support provision to Jobseekers Allowance occurring on 7 October 1996.
The Benefits Agency (BA) was an executive agency of the British Department of Social Security (subsequently the Department for Work and Pensions), set up in 1991 to "create and deliver an active modern social security service, which encourages and enables independence and aims to pay the right money at the right time".
Membership of the Institute consists of individuals working across the employability, policy (employment related) and skills sector including; job advisers (such as from Jobcentre Plus), operations managers, academics, policy advisers, professional trainers or independent business coaches.
The Flexible Support Fund is administered by individual Job Centres in the United Kingdom. The Flexible Support Fund (FSF) [1] is a fund in the United Kingdom to aid those in receipt of unemployment benefits to gain employment.
The Abergavenny fireworks display was originally started to provide a display for the children's home in 1965 it moved to its current location of Belgrave Park in 1968 as the fireworks could be seen from the nearby Nevill Hall Hospital, the fireworks display has been put on every year since, up to the present.
Abergavenny Hockey Club, formed in 1897, currently play at the Abergavenny Leisure Centre on Old Hereford Road. [40] Abergavenny Cricket Club play at Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road and Glamorgan CCC also play some of their games here. Abergavenny Cricket Club was founded in 1834 and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009. [41]