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A woman in her late 40s from East Dorset can expect to receive £67,000 more in state pension when she retires, compared to a women of th...

On Monday 29 July 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales, will consider the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) appeal against...

The DWP have admitted their involvement in the Role Models: Inspire A Generation youtube channel after first attempting to mislead people ...

R (on the application of Wilson and another) (Respondents) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Appellant) The Supreme Court of the...

The Trussell Trust Food Bank founders, The people behind it: The Trussel Trust, was introduced to dole offices specifically as an alte...

Private firms in flagship back-to-work scheme complain of too little funding and too much demand A Work Programme session for the lo...

Esther McVey: Talk to the hand The government has cited one line in the guest  foreward of a review of the work capability assessment...

The House of Lords Constitution Committee published its report earlier today on the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill . (Professor Ada...

Reblogged from Sue Marsh: Any of you who just watched the car-crash that was Esther McVey trying to undermine the credibility of the Spart...

We were told that more Work Programme performance data would be published this month.  I would be very surprised if that happens.  It would ...

A little noticed piece of DWP research shows that four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years off u...

A FOI Request has confirmed Capita will not be offering PIP Claimants the opportunity of having their assessments audio recorded as was p...

The wealthiest judges in the country are using human rights laws to challenge the Government over cuts to their gold-plated pensions worth h...

'Ministers, the police and social workers have been accused of a 'shocking' failure to prevent the spread of modern slavery ...

New advice issued to doctors, patients and employers on sick pay shows just how far the Government intend to push the brutal regime for peop...

 Illustration by @dochackenbush  Iain Duncan Smith was interviewed on the Andrew Marr show today. He made some telling statements...

On the Andrew Marr show on BBC  IDS was speaking about the Poundland case in which Cait Reilly was forced to work in a Poundland store for ...

Iain Duncan Smith: "Terry Leahy started his life stacking shelves" The work and pensions secretary has criticised ...

Angus MP Mike Weir has demanded that the Prime Minister personally intervene and act on claims that some JobCentre managers are putting pres...