DWP

Benefit claimants currently too sick to work could face losing their payments if they do not go back into employment.

A single state benefit could be moving a step nearer today with the publication of a consultation paper on the future of the welfare state.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) does not incentivise work and there is still a widespread belief among claimants that they would be better off on benefit than in work, according to a new report.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has vowed to press ahead with the previous Labour government's plan to review the work capability of all 2.5 million people claiming incapacity benefit.

The Department of Work and Pensions has released monthly and quarterly statistics in its April 2010 Statistical Summary.

The Government's continued drive to slash benefit spending takes another step today as new guidance is issued about the incoming ‘fit note'.