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fromTheregister
2 days ago

UK pensions dept shopping for spy-van tech worth up to 2M

The Department for Work and Pensions plans a £2 million upgrade for real-time surveillance of fraud suspects using advanced recording technology.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

More than 300,000 lose benefits as DWP makes major changes and more could follow

Over 356,000 UK households lost benefits averaging £1,000 monthly for failing to respond to universal credit migration notices from the Department for Work and Pensions.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Millions remain trapped in child poverty with only 10% fall predicted by 2029

Over four million children in the UK are projected to live in relative low income by 2029, even after ending the two-child benefit limit.
UK politics
fromTheregister
2 months ago

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants 19 minutes a day

Copilot reduced routine task time for DWP civil servants by about 19 minutes per day, improving draft quality and job satisfaction for many users.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months ago

Cold weather payments triggered in over 400 postcodes check if you're eligible

Cold Weather Payments of £25 are automatically paid to qualifying households for each seven-day period when local temperatures are at or below zero.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Kafkaesque': teacher in Birmingham fights to clear his name after identity fraud

A special needs teacher has spent almost a year trying to clear his name after a fraudulent universal credit claim was made using his identity, which has left him on the hook for hundreds of pounds in repayments. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to acknowledge the fraud, even though Michael Bene has supplied evidence he was in the Scottish Highlands when the claimant attended a face-to-face verification interview in Cheshire.
UK politics
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
9 months ago

DWP urges 200,000 parents to come forward for 5,000 retirement top up

The Department for Work and Pensions struggles to reunite affected parents with underpaid state pensions due to record-keeping errors.
fromwww.theguardian.com
11 months ago

Mother of autistic boy left with 10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by 1.92 a week

In a cruel and nonsensical system, unpaid carers must repay full benefits if they exceed a strict earnings limit, even by just a single penny.
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