NEWS

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

GOV.UK ALERTS

Benefits

• Options for Defined Benefit schemes (7 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/options-for-defined-benefit-schemes?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=c5da7f61-c179-4817-9a01-847bb4fa0468&utm_content=daily.

• Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries statistics: April 2023 to September 2023 (6 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-benefit-debt-recoveries-statistics-april-2023-to-september-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=1cd16cbf-a2f3-4e46-b851-064440a390d0&utm_content=daily.

• How the deductions from benefit scheme works: guidance for creditors or suppliers (5 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-the-deductions-from-benefit-scheme-works-a-handbook-for-creditors?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=4cf95236-ca86-4671-b856-a4606f6f140a&utm_content=daily.

• DWP Debt Management performance data (5 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-debt-management-performance-data?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=901c33e6-50fa-4d2b-95bb-bbc4cfca09ad&utm_content=daily.

• LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2019 (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/la-welfare-direct-bulletins-2019?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=40a5989b-fee4-4433-8e90-720b824bd150&utm_content=daily.

• How the deductions from benefit scheme works: guidance for creditors or suppliers (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-the-deductions-from-benefit-scheme-works-a-handbook-for-creditors?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=ef7beee9-2bdc-471f-a964-fe0eccbc37bf&utm_content=daily.

• Attendance Allowance claim form (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/attendance-allowance-claim-form?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=85c90015-25ad-49b7-a8b9-653b4a5e0811&utm_content=daily.

• Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2024 (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-benefit-adjudication-circulars-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=ee8401cb-a979-4321-9679-de7cf3edf879&utm_content=daily.

Universal Credit

• Estimating the employment impact of Universal Credit among single parents (5 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimating-the-employment-impact-of-universal-credit-among-single-parents?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0b7805bc-8bdf-4402-ad90-9bbb68075f49&utm_content=daily.

Miscellaneous

• Shattering the silence about menopause: 12-month progress report (8 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shattering-the-silence-about-menopause-12-month-progress-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=df9c4e4d-4e26-45b9-8f3d-973e0432f46d&utm_content=daily.

• List of upcoming releases of management information and ad hoc analyses (8 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-upcoming-releases-of-management-information-and-ad-hoc-analyses?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0ba41a0c-4065-4536-982c-a3d599dc3ec9&utm_content=daily.

• DWP procurement: security policies and standards (7 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-procurement-security-policies-and-standards?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=74a28463-353e-4e8e-9b4d-4c1a1f5053a8&utm_content=daily.

• Cold Weather Payment estimates: 2023 to 2024 (6 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cold-weather-payment-estimates-2023-to-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=7dac54f1-29d0-42fd-ae0a-b73602ca2e4f&utm_content=daily.

• Disability Confident service providers (6 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-service-providers?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=1e3567d0-8819-4ab4-93ec-f35c52253184&utm_content=daily.

• Development of a new measure of poverty: statistical notice (6 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/development-of-a-new-measure-of-poverty-statistical-notice?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=19030529-6d6b-4259-83df-97550d8ba2bf&utm_content=daily.

• Employers that have signed up to the Disability Confident scheme (5 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-employers-that-have-signed-up?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=875287f7-f86c-4e2a-8af0-1dedb5f47f1e&utm_content=daily.

• DWP statistical work programme (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-statistical-work-programme?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3a9d0b0c-4df3-496e-8212-c46e26ce83e8&utm_content=daily.

• The basic State Pension claim form (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-basic-state-pension?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=9049b9d2-447f-49cc-9b08-e6e57d29ba2b&utm_content=daily.

• DWP and CMG: spending over £500, January 2024 (4 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-and-cmg-spending-over-500-january-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=11da097f-fb15-4474-b90a-59af7d1460ae&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.