Investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration
Published on:The NAO has published the findings from its investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration.
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Investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration
Published on:The NAO has published the findings from its investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration.
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Local welfare provision
Published on:Overall spending on discretionary local welfare support by central and local government has reduced since April 2013. The consequences of this gap in provision are not understood.
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Local welfare provision
Published on:Overall spending on discretionary local welfare support by central and local government has reduced since April 2013. The consequences of this gap in provision are not understood.
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Contracted-out health and disability assessments
Published on:The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet achieved value for money in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments.
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Contracted-out health and disability assessments
Published on:The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet achieved value for money in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments.
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Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2014-15
Published on:The C&AG has qualified the DWP’s Client Funds Account on the grounds of material errors in the calculations of child maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.
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Investigation: the government’s funding of Kids Company
Published on:Kids Company, a children’s charity, received at least £46m of public funding. Officials raised concerns about the charity’s cash flow and financial sustainability at least 6 times between 2002 and 2015 but the charity never reached a position where it was able to operate without government assistance.
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Confirmed impacts: Learning from the experience of welfare reform
Published on:This impacts case study shows how DWP has responded to our reviews of several welfare reform programmes, including by improving financial controls, contract management, and the way it manages its portfolio of change programmes.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
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Fraud and Error Stocktake
Published on:The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.
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Welfare reform
Published on:It is important that the DWP use the hard lessons it learned from implementing its recent programme of welfare reforms to improve how it manages change and anticipates risk.
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Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2013-14
Published on:The C&AG has qualified the DWP’s Client Funds Account on the grounds of material errors in the calculations of child maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.
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Further education and skills sector: implementing the Simplification Plan
Published on:A plan by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills to reduce complexity and administrative burdens in the further education and skills sector, despite improving some processes, has had only limited impact on providers’ costs.
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Universal Credit: progress update
Published on:The DWP has reset Universal Credit on a sounder basis but at significant cost, by extending the time for implementation and choosing a more expensive approach.
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Housing Benefit fraud and error
Published on:The Department for Work & Pensions should have increased its focus on Housing Benefit fraud and error sooner, and is now facing an escalating problem.
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The 2013-14 savings reported by the Efficiency and Reform Group
Published on:The Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) has achieved significant savings but further work should be done to improve the process of gathering and collating evidence.
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Social Fund White Paper Account 2013-14
Published on:For the first time since 2009-10, the Social Fund White Paper account has not been qualified on the grounds of the completeness, existence and valuation of the debt balance.
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Child maintenance 2012 scheme: Early Progress
Published on:The DWP has simplified the way it administers child maintenance and is approaching expected levels of performance. But overall objectives might be at risk if the number of people using family-based arrangements does not increase.
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The disposal of Remploy’s businesses
Published on:Remploy and the Department for Work & Pensions completed the disposal of Remploy factories within a tight timetable and below budget.
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Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2012-13
Published on:Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has again been unable to give a full sign off to the statutory child maintenance schemes account.