Department for Work and Pensions
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| Consist | June 8, 2001 - today | ||
| Arose from |
Department for Education and Skills Department of Social Security |
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| Headquarters | Caxton House Tothill Street London |
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| household | £ 167.6 billion (2014-2015) | ||
| Cabinet Minister | Thérèse Coffey | ||
| Employee | 83,038 (2015) | ||
| Website | www.gov.uk/dwp | ||
The Department for Work and Pensions ( German Ministry of Labor and pension ) is the largest Ministry of the United Kingdom and is responsible as such for social welfare and pension policies .
The Ministry has four operating organizations:
- Jobcentre Plus administers the "Jobseeker's Allowance" ( unemployment benefits ) and, after a working capacity assessment of who the "Employment and Support Allowance" ( incapacity benefit may receive).
- The Pension Service pays the "State Pension" ( pensions ) and "pension credit" (Pension Credit)
- Disability and Carers Service provides financial support to people with disabilities and their carers
- The Child Maintenance Group pays child benefit , currently operates as a “Child Support Agency” and the “Child Maintenance Agency”, but the latter is treated as a long-term successor
history
The ministry was established on June 8, 2001. It is the British as a result of the merger of British education and employment ministry "Department for Education and Skills," parts Social Affairs ( "the Department of Social Security") and the British employment created ( "Employment Service").
It was mainly tasked with channeling the surviving assets of the “Employment Service” into the “Jobcentre Plus” and “Pension Service” programs. That is why it is entrusted with social and pension policy. It is their declared aim to "help those receiving social assistance to become financially independent and to combat child poverty ."
minister
Below is a list of the incumbent ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions:
| minister | rank | Jurisdiction |
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| Thérèse Coffey | Cabinet Minister | all |
| Alok Sharma MP | Minister of Labor | job |
| Sarah Newton MP | Minister | People with disabilities, work and health |
| Guy Opperman MP | Parliamentary State Secretary | Pensions and financial inclusion |
| Kit Malthouse MP | Parliamentary State Secretary | Family support, accommodation and childcare |
| Peta Buscombe | Parliamentary State Secretary | Department store in the House of Lords |
Controversy
Following a Freedom of Information request from the Welfare Weekly website, the ministry admitted using fictional stories about fictional welfare recipients on informational material promoting the positive effects of a welfare sanction. This welfare sanction stems from Iain Duncan Smith , then cabinet secretary for the department, and allows the department to cut welfare benefits for up to 3 years for those who do not meet state jobseeker requirements. In a later statement, the ministry stated: “The stories are for illustrative purposes only, to help people understand how the welfare system works. They are based on conversations our employees have had with real welfare recipients. "
In the summer of 2019, aid organizations reported that the proportion of EU foreigners who are wrongly denied access to the universal credit welfare system in the UK has risen sharply. Even if objections to the decisions of the DWP are mostly successful, those affected usually have no income whatsoever for the duration of the proceedings of around 40 weeks.
Individual evidence
- ^ Department for Work and Pensions - Annual Report and Accounts 2014–2015. (PDF) In: www.gov.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b About - Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK. In: www.gov.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (English).
- ^ The National Archives: The Discovery Service. In: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (English).
- ^ Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK. In: www.gov.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
- ↑ DWP uses 'fake' claimants in benefit sanctions leaflet -. In: dial2donate.org. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Kevin Rawlinson, Frances Perraudin: DWP admits inventing quotes from fake 'benefits claimants' for sanctions leaflet . In: The Guardian . August 18, 2015 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 22, 2016]).
- ↑ Kevin Rawlinson: Fake benefits claimant 'Zac' quoted in other DWP documents . In: The Guardian . August 21, 2015 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 22, 2016]).
- ↑ Patrick Butler and Jennifer Rankin: "Surge in EU citizens unfairly refused access to universal credit" The Guardian of August 5, 2019