DWP

The Department for Work and Pensions and the Local Government Association have named fifteen local authorities in England recommended as potential pilot sites for Universal Credit.

Cirencester Friendly has urged advisers to review family protection needs following DWP household income figures published today.

Advisers have been struggling to sell income protection because clients claim not to need it, Defaqto research has shown.

The Department for Work and Pensions is taking lone parents off income support earlier in their child's life and returning them to work.

Government figures for the quarter to August 2011 reveal that 54% of people who go through the Work Capability Assessment are found fit for some form of work.

This month, the AMII elected a new chair. Owain Thomas spoke to the outgoing - and often outspoken - Andrew Tripp after two years leading the organisation.

More than one third of people going through Incapacity Benefit reassessment have been found to be fit for work, according to the first set of official statistics released today.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Aegon has published a guide to State bereavement payments that will be issued with all death claim packs.

Bereavement benefits need to be altered to better support those who have suffered the death of a loved one, government research has found.