NEWS

The latest DWP news can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions. 

GOV.UK ALERTS

Benefits

• LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2024 (19 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/la-welfare-direct-bulletins-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=b01666b9-bd33-450e-965a-5d5d372f19db&utm_content=daily.

• Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2023 (16 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=be9d3976-1627-47eb-913b-eb8198f65b7d&utm_content=daily.

Universal Credit

• Advice for decision making: staff guide (18 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0270b4f0-683c-4c9b-956a-c05273bc4389&utm_content=daily.

• Universal Credit and you (18 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-and-you?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=5af6aef1-c527-4517-a6db-5e05266f70b7&utm_content=daily.

• Universal Credit: Alternative Payment Arrangements (17 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-alternative-payment-arrangements?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=f5d64591-fbd2-45f5-bcd1-6d781c5aed64&utm_content=daily.

• Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 14 December 2023 (16 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-statistics-29-april-2013-to-14-december-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3214be9d-7c4c-4025-932d-0657ddd7c429&utm_content=daily.

Miscellaneous

• DWP official social media accounts (19 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-registered-twitter-accounts?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=f55e8fb1-c262-45a4-868b-607aba17ed60&utm_content=daily.

• Below Average Resources: developing a new poverty measure (18 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/below-average-resources-developing-a-new-poverty-measure?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=657a149e-961a-4826-9bad-9b84adfa70a4&utm_content=daily.

• Pre-release access to DWP statistics (18 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pre-release-access-to-statistics-order-2008?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2f7421e2-9ce7-4474-b593-bddd65c66435&utm_content=daily.

• Work and Health Programme evaluation: synthesis report (18 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-and-health-programme-evaluation-synthesis-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=984d44a8-c536-4ec4-b33b-b38a33971ca8&utm_content=daily.

• Cold Weather Payment estimates: 2023 to 2024 (17 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cold-weather-payment-estimates-2023-to-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3ff6de1c-42bf-46c8-b641-0633b52f546c&utm_content=daily.

• Employers that have signed up to the Disability Confident scheme (17 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-employers-that-have-signed-up?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=cd513fe8-e76d-406d-b05d-4e7e7574f819&utm_content=daily.

• Domestic violence and abuse: help from DWP (16 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-violence-and-abuse-help-from-dwp?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=bc5880e1-0192-4d1c-8991-6c3f3b71f314&utm_content=daily.

• DWP procurement: security policies and standards (16 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-procurement-security-policies-and-standards?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=7dcf4ad1-0cad-461e-ae7c-3b632f2265e3&utm_content=daily.

• The welfare cap (15 January 2024)
  https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06852/.

• Work and Health Programme (15 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-and-health-programme-including-jets-provider-guidance?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3608f5eb-6284-48d1-8f85-5f4fcf8d0dee&utm_content=daily.

• Work and Health Programme provider memos (15 January 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-and-health-programme-provider-memos-2018?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0e7156d6-ebb3-4659-b25c-449168db5f35&utm_content=daily.

ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2022/23

The Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23 of the DWP can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=09efc5a7-497b-4934-8f6f-6ae76a2d2261&utm_content=daily.