Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire

According the figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions, Watford has the highest rate of employment among older workers.

Numbers of disabled people helped and numbers continuing to benefit from Access to Work from April 2013 to December 2013.

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The number of unemployed people has risen by 20,000 people compared with the same period last month despite DWP spin that the numbers out of work are falling. 2.34 million people were unemployed in...

Ministers have come under pressure to stop helping young people work in strip clubs and porn film sets as the government offers £2,275 for every full-time job provided to an 18 to 24-year old. Those looking to take on young unemployed people for jobs like working behind the bar in a strip club, or on a porn film set but not as a performer behind the camera, can be eligible for a £2,275 "wage incentive" under the government's "Youth Contract".

The government has announced a new service designed to help employees who have been on sickness absence return to work.

AROUND 95,000 workers were off sick in Scotland for more than a month over the past three years, a government study has revealed.

The new Health and Work Service will help employees who have been on sickness absence for four weeks to return to work.

From April, staff absent for over four weeks can be referred for assessments with the Health and Work Service.

The Minister of State for Disabled People visits a vehicle adaptations firm to see how the government’s £17m of investment is being spent.

The number of disabled people taking advantage of support to get or keep a job is up by over 10% on last year.

Creating conditions for businesses to grow, resulting in jobs, and welfare reform to get people into work.

Part-time workers judged to be doing too little to find full-time work face having their benefit for housing costs sanctioned by the government for the first time under universal credit.

Statistics to September 2013 on take-up of the In Work Credit, a financial incentive available to lone parents moving into work.

Iain Duncan Smith has come under fire after the Department for Work and Pensions admitted it does not know how much it is paying adult employers in government subsidies to take on young people. Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart told HuffPostUK that the department's failure to know how many adult employers were getting £2,275 "wage incentives" to hire young people in full-time work was "unacceptable".

As 566,000 come off benefits since 2010, ministers move to tackle sickness absence with new service.

The Department for Work and Pensions says employees off work for more than a month will be offered health assessments to cut Britain's annual £9bn sick pay bill

A new scheme to get the sick back to work is to be launched by the Department for Work and Pensions in a bid to slash Britain's welfare bill.

More than 8,000 households have moved out of the benefit cap since its introduction last April, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.