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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It 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 around 20 million ...
With initial decisions, almost two-thirds of claimants were declared 'fit for work' by the DWP in 2009 and 2010. This dropped to around half once the reassessment programme got underway in 2011; by 2013, it was a third; by 2014, only a quarter of claimants were declared 'fit for work' by the DWP at the first stage of the decision-making process.
The secretary of state for work and pensions, also referred to as the work and pensions secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of the Department for Work and Pensions. [3] The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
Jobcentre Plus was an executive agency [2] of the Department for Work and Pensions of the government of the United Kingdom between 2002 and 2011. [3] The functions of Jobcentre Plus were subsequently provided directly through the Department for Work and Pensions.
Sir Robert John Devereux, KCB (/ ˈ d ɛ v ə ˌ r uː /; born 15 January 1957) is a retired senior British civil servant, who served as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Transport from 2007 to 2011, [1] and oversaw a new policy increasing the UK retirement age to 67 at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2011 until his retirement at 61 in January 2018.
Paul Paradis, a cooperating witness in the DWP billing scandal, received 33 months in prison, exceeding the 18 months recommended by prosecutors. Key lawyer in DWP corruption scandal gets 33-month ...
The National Institute for Social Work Training was set up in 1961, following proposals put forward in the 1959 Eileen Younghusband report for an independent staff college for social work. [1] Its initial funding was assured for ten years by the Nuffield Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.
United College is a university college affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The college, previously known as St. Paul's United College and St. Paul's University College, contributes to the University of Waterloo by offering academic programming as well as accommodation for both graduate and undergraduate students.