Search results for 'Work, welfare and pensions'
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Department For Work and Pensions: Progress in tackling benefit fraud
Published on:The Department for Work and Pensions has made good progress in tackling benefit fraud, which is estimated to have fallen from an estimated £2 billion in 2000-01 to £800 million in 2006-07, a substantial achievement by its staff, although definitional changes have helped. Tackling benefit fraud is inherently difficult as it is in the nature […]
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Investigation into the implementation of IR35 tax reforms
Published on:This investigation sets out how HMRC introduced the 2017 IR35 reforms, and what lessons it has learned and taken forward.
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Employment support: The Kickstart Scheme
Published on:This report examines how well DWP’s Kickstart scheme was implemented, and whether it is having the intended positive impact.
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Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2006-07
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, has today qualified his opinion on the Department for Work and Pensions accounts for the eighteenth consecutive year. This is because an estimated £2.5 billion has been lost to fraud and error in benefit payments, and because of uncertainties over the debts created by customers being […]
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The roll-out of the Jobcentre Plus office network
Published on:The Jobcentre Plus programme rolled out a network of over 800 offices, combining the functions of the former jobcentres and social security offices, and was completed for £314 million less than the original £2.2 billion budget according to a National Audit Office report released today. The project was well managed, particularly the procurement aspect, where […]
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Employment support
Published on:This briefing presents information on how DWP supports people into work, and the challenges it may face in delivering support.
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Universal Credit advances fraud
Published on:This report outlines the extent of Universal Credit advances fraud and the DWP’s actions to detect, recover and prevent it.
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The Pensions Regulator: Progress in establishing its new regulatory approach
Published on:The Pensions Regulator has been effective in establishing clear links between its statutory objectives and how it goes about meeting them, and has made good progress in addressing the problems left by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority (Opra). The good progress has been acknowledged by the Pensions Regulator stakeholders: 78 per cent of whom believe […]
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Increasing Employment Rates for Ethnic Minorities
Published on:The NAO has reported today that, despite some progress, there is still a significant gap between the employment rate for the ethnic minority population and that for the general population which could take thirty years to eliminate. The Department for Work and Pensions’ strategy to tackle this has had some success, but in the NAO’s […]
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Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2020-21
Published on:The C&AG of the NAO, Gareth Davies, has qualified his opinion on the regularity of DWP’s 2020-21 financial statements.
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Department for Work and Pensions: Information Technology Programmes
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Sustainable employment: supporting people to stay in work and advance
Published on:Government-led initiatives to help unemployed people find work are having a real impact. Programmes such as the New Deal have helped reduce the number of people on benefit, and the average length of claims. However, too many people still do not stay in work once they have found it and more now needs to be […]
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Leaving the services
Published on:The Ministry of Defence offers a good range of resettlement support for those leaving the Armed Forces, and most people adapt back into civilian life easily and comfortably. There are a minority of people who have a more difficult time finding employment, housing or making the social transition. A National Audit Office survey of those […]
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Helping people from workless households into work
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Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take up of entitlements
Published on:The Pension Service has made real and substantial progress since 2002 in helping pensioners to secure their entitlements using new and well thought through approaches, but will need to build on this work to improve take-up still further. A report today by the National Audit Office highlights the need to develop local work to reach […]
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Public Service Pensions
Published on:This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.
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Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2005-2006
Published on:Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn has today reported to Parliament that he is qualifying his opinion on the accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is because of substantial levels of estimated losses from fraud and error in benefit payments and material uncertainties about the level of debt resulting […]
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Department for Work and Pensions annual report and accounts 2019-20
Published on:Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department for Work and Pensions’ annual report and accounts 2019-20
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Department for Work and Pensions: Using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and entitlements
Published on:The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made progress in improving the design of some leaflets but could go further to make them easier for the public to understand and get hold of, according to a National Audit Office report published today. The report also found that the DWP could improve how it checks […]