Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) chiefs have revealed that they're intensifying home visits for certain new Universal Credit claims. According to Neil Couling, Director General for Fraud ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has disclosed that its new banking investigations will focus initially on four specific groups. The Labour Party's Minister for Transformation Andrew ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is increasing its efforts to conduct home visits as part of the transition to Universal Credit. In situations where claimants have been invited to apply ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has introduced a new £1,000 rule in a bid to tackle benefit fraud. Those who owe at least £1,000 in benefits and fail to repay it could face stringent ...

The DWP has confirmed that thousands of benefit claimants can expect to receive a significant amount of compensation after several major court battles. The department say around 57,000 people will ...

Sir Steve Webb said the letters from the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) do not make clear that repaying the money is voluntary. The DWP overpaid more than £500 million of state pension ...

Labour has announced what it is calling the “biggest fraud crackdown in a generation” – but campaigners have slammed it as “one of the biggest assaults on welfare in a generation”. Benefit claimants ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that the first phase of reforms to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will begin this year. As part of an upcoming Health and Disability ...

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it is using AI to help find overpayments and fraudulent claims across a range of benefits that include Universal Credit and Personal ...

UK households have been told they have no legal obligation to pay money back after a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) mistake. The DWP overpaid more than £500 million of State Pension and ...