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Hundreds of thousands of sick or disabled people will be offered voluntary help towards employment as part of a package of measures coming into force 6th April 2026 that will encourage work and save taxpayers around £1 billion. Incentives that discourage work and trap people on benefits to be removed via legislation coming into force 6th … Continue reading Thousands to be supported into work with reforms to welfare system
Historic legislation to end the two-child limit has become law, putting 450,000 children on a pathway out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament. Two child-limit – which pushed 100 children a day into hardship – to be scrapped as child poverty bill becomes law. 450,000 children to be lifted out of poverty … Continue reading Two-child limit removal becomes law
Vulnerable claimants moved to Universal Credit with specialist help, as Government puts those who need it most at heart of delivery Over 9 in 10 Employment and Support Allowance [ESA] customers invited to move now on modern benefit system as historic transformation nears completion Minister for Social Security and Disability encourages people to make the … Continue reading 220,000 vulnerable claimants given personalised support to move to Universal Credit
Over 40,000 more sick or disabled people will receive intensive employment support to move into secure, fulfilling work and out of poverty, thanks to a £167.2 million boost to the Connect to Work programme. Nine further areas across England to benefit from a £167 million investment in Connect to Work – the programme that refuses … Continue reading Job advisers to be embedded in GP surgeries as tens of thousands more sick and disabled people offered help into work
575,200 people on a low income have opened a Help to Save Account. They can save up to £50 a month and get a 50% bonus on top. Part of Government’s mission to grow the economy and deliver on our Plan for Change. Help to Save users have received more than £220 million in bonus … Continue reading £220 million boost for the Help to Save club
More than eight million households across the whole of the UK will get a cash payment from July to ease cost of living pressures, as the Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey sets out detailed plans today. Millions will receive the first of two cost of living instalments totalling £650 from 14 July 2022, part … Continue reading Eight million households to get new cost-of-living payment from 14 July
The government outlines plans to resume helping claimants move to Universal Credit by end of 2024Universal Credit supported millions during the pandemic All benefit claimants will be moved over to Universal Credit by the end of 2024, the Department for Work and Pensions announced. The restart follows a pause to the process during the pandemic … Continue reading Move of claimants to Universal Credit to restart