Department for Work and Pensions
Ministerial department of the UK Government
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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 claimants and customers. It is the second-largest governmental department in terms of employees, and the second largest in terms of expenditure.
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100,000 extra pensioners could be in poverty by 2027 after winter fuel cut, modelling shows One hundred thousand extra pensioners could be in poverty by 2027 due to the government's decision to axe the winter fuel payment, according to modelling from the Department for Work and Pensions.Sky News - Published | |
DWP callers 'left on hold for collective wait of 753 years' People phoning the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) collectively spent more than 753 years waiting for calls to be answered in 2023/24, a report has found.Sky News - Published | |
Caring 'unsung heroes' being chased for £251m by DWPA total of £251m is being clawed back from unpaid carers after many unwittingly went over the benefit earnings threshold.Sky News - Published | |
About 100 sub-postmaster convictions separate to Post Office cases may be 'tainted'Prosecutions of sub postmasters by the Department for Work and Pensions could be "tainted" as Sky News reveals officials worked with now discredited Post Office investigators to secure convictions.Sky News - Published | |
Border Force workers, ambulance crews and DWP staff among those joining Christmas strikes this week Strikes will continue across a number of industries this week in an escalating campaign of industrial action, with Border Force workers among those expected to walk out.Sky News - Published | |
More than 1,100 DWP staff at risk of losing jobs as government closes officesThe closure of Department for Work and Pensions offices is placing more than 1,100 jobs at risk and thousands more could be made redundant, the PCS union said.Sky News - Published | |
