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Confirmed impacts: Learning from the experience of welfare reform

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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14 Oct 2015
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Confirmed impacts: Improving data quality and records retention of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme

This impacts case study shows how our identification of data and management weaknesses was pivotal in leading to the implementation of actions to address them.

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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15 Oct 2015
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The impact of state pension reforms on people with Guaranteed Minimum Pensions

The Department for Work and Pension has limited information about who will be affected by the impact of state pension reforms in April 2016 on people with Guaranteed Minimum Pensions. The impact will depend on a number of factors, and some people are likely to lose out. The Department is now seeking to improve how it communicates the impact of pension reforms.

24 March 2016

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24 Mar 2016
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Managing the welfare cap

The welfare cap is encouraging a greater understanding of spending on some benefits and tax credits across government, but it is important that processes for managing the cap are reliable.

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27 Apr 2016
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Department for Work and Pensions 2015-16 accounts

The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, other than State Pension where the level of fraud and error is lower.

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8 Jul 2016