Department for Work and Pensions annual report and accounts 2018-19
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
This report is about the Department for Work & Pensions’ support to help disabled people overcome barriers to work.
This report outlines the extent of Universal Credit advances fraud and the DWP’s actions to detect, recover and prevent it.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
This investigation sets out facts about penalty charge notices and how the NHS supports vulnerable people to navigate the system.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests made to the NAO in 2024.
This report considers: the Motability scheme’s customer offer and performance; Motability Operations’ financial model; and the scheme’s governance arrangements.
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This report examines the implementation of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of the Department for Work and Pensions’ financial statements due to material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
In this report, we assess the value for money of the Department for Work and Pensions’ introduction of Universal Credit.
The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2017-18 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinions on the Client Funds Accounts prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions for the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes on the grounds of material levels of irregular receipts and payments and misstated arrears balances. However he has given a clean audit opinion on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme Account after improvements in the accuracy of assessing child maintenance claims.
14 December 2017
This report assesses whether the apprenticeships programme is providing value for money.
Gareth Davies uses the NAO’s insights to outline what government needs to do to make public money work harder
This report examines the progress made in improving the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements. Delays in completing audited accounts can have significant implications for local accountability and the effective management of public money.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2016-17 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure excluding State Pension, resulting in over and underpayments to claimants.
4 July 2017
The Department for Work and Pensions successfully managed the introduction of the new state pension, but it is not yet clear whether the simplified system will encourage people to save more for their retirement.
This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.