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  3. The Community Care Grant

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    The Community Care Grant has an important role in helping vulnerable people to establish themselves in the community and in easing pressure on families. The scheme is designed to be flexible so that it can provide help in good time to those who need it but the scheme as currently designed does not deliver value for money.

  5. One in five legacy benefit claimants not switching to Universal Credit

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    One in five people on Tax Credits who were invited to move to Universal Credit (UC) did not then claim UC and had their benefits stopped, according to a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The coalition government proposed UC in 2010 to replace six means-tested benefits for working-age households.1 DWP estimates that […]

  7. Programmes to help families facing multiple challenges

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    Two government programmes aiming to help families with multiple challenges, such as unemployment and anti-social behaviour, are starting to provide benefits but considerable challenges remain.

  8. Investigation into supported housing

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    Report summarising the National Audit Office’s (NAO) investigation into the provision of supported housing in England

  9. Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 17

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    Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011

    Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 17 led by the Department for Work and Pensions: ‘Tackle poverty and promote greater independence and well-being in later life’

  10. Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 8

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    Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011

    Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 8 led by the Department for Work and Pensions: ‘Maximise employment opportunity for all’

  11. Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work

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    A Department for Work and Pensions programme to reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefits and help them into work has had a limited impact and, while a serious attempt to tackle an intractable issue, has turned out to provide poor value for money.

  13. Review of errors in Guaranteed Minimum Pension payments

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    A review by the National Audit Office of overpayments to public service pensioners totalling £90 million has found a complex and fragmented administrative process, prone to error, and for which there is no clear overall responsibility.  The process requires effective joint working between the parties involved (the five public service pension schemes, HM Revenue and […]

  14. Financial sustainability of schools

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    The government’s approach to managing the risks to schools’ financial sustainability cannot be judged to be effective or providing value for money until more progress is made.

  15. Reducing losses in the benefits system caused by customers’ mistakes

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    DWP does not yet have enough evidence to demonstrate that its activities to reduce the cost of mistakes by customers have been value for money. Although mistakes are difficult to detect, correct and prevent, the scale of overpayments and underpayments demonstrates a clear need for improvement.

  16. Public Service Pensions

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    This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.

  17. Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2014-15

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    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.

  18. Minimising the cost of administrative errors in the benefit system

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    DWP has not reduced the mistakes made by staff processing benefits. In 2009-10 it overpaid an estimated £1.1 billion and made underpayments of £500 million. However, the scale of the challenge facing the Department should not be underestimated.

  19. Homelessness in England Visualisation

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    Explore the broad trends identified by our report Homelessness and build a richer understanding of what they mean for different parts of the country.