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Following the ruling, the DWP had to change how it assesses the need for social support when engaging with other people face to face, as part of the PIP assessment. It means hundreds of thousands ...
DWP ratepayer advocate predicts fee increases, recommends delaying city’s 100% clean energy timeline The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power building on June 7, 2015.
The amount of money stolen by DWP staff is far less than the amount lost due to benefits fraud among claimants. The Government wrote off £5.8m due to customer fraud in 2024-2025, which it said it ...
The DWP has made a string of serious administrative errors which have seen PIP claimants wrongly denied vital support or underpaid - and now thousands could be owed over £5,000 ...
The DWP agreed to provide compensation for the income reduction, which Leigh Day calculates could be valued at more than £5,000 per person. Nevertheless, the DWP has now acknowledged that ...
The DWP has published its most recent statistics, showing that more than 3.7 million people throughout Great Britain are currently receiving additional financial support via PIP, representing a ...
Recent DWP statistics reveal that by the end of August 2024, almost 1.7 million elderly individuals were claiming extra financial assistance via Attendance Allowance. Attendance Allowance provides ...
New DWP update as some benefit claimants could get over £5,000 The DWP is in the process of repaying thousands of people who lost out on disability premiums when they were moved to Universal Credit ...
A union has described plans to close a Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) centre in Lincoln as a "callous decision". The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said around 128 people risk ...